Chronic disease management programmes may provide a compelling approach for improving both the quality and cost-effectiveness of care for the growing number of patients diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Programmes have been constructed in many different ways depending on the local health-...
Knowing how chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients talk about their encounters with providers (i.e., their discourse) can inform the important clinical goal of engaging patients in their chronic disease self-management. The aim of this study was to analyze patient discourse on ongoing CKD monitorin...
American Indian and Alaska Native peoples have low life expectancy and a disproportionate disease burden (including of chronic kidney disease), owing to inadequate education, poverty, discrimination and underfunding in the delivery of health services, and healthcare institutions’ lack of appreciation for...
Ideally, a kidney specialist (nephrologist) will prepare you for starting dialysis even before your kidneys get to that point. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) can be caused by diabetes, high blood pressure, or chronic kidney inflammation. Sometimes people with CKD have it for a long time before ...
PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper was to review the literature concerning the treatment of chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder (CKD-MBD) in the elderly peritoneal dialysis (PD) patient. RESULTS: Chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder is a major problem in the elderly PD patient,...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with inflammation. The effects of atorvastatin on biomarkers of inflammation were assessed in CKD patients in the LORD trial.117 patients with serum creatinine >120 μmol/L were randomized to receive atorvastatin 10 mg/day (56) or placebo (61) and fol...
Patient education in inflammatory bowel disease does not influence patients knowledge and long-term psychosocial well-being. BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Patient education is accepted in many disciplines as a valid component of disease management in chronic diseases. The aim of this pros... N Bregenzer,A...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with symptoms that can significantly reduce the quality of life (QoL) of patients. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) may facilitate the assessment of the impact of disease and treatment on the QoL, from a patient perspective. PROMs can be used...
Patients reported that their knowledge of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had increased, that they had acquired tools to handle their symptoms, and that the social aspect of patient education had motivated them to utilize their new habits after finishing the course. The data indicate that ...
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) can provide valuable information which may assist with the care of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, given the large number of measures available, it is unclear which PROMs are suitable for use in research or clinical practice. To addre...