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Kidney Diet Tips
June 15th, 2021· By Hayley Bode, Dietetic Intern

Nutrition Facts Food Label: What’s New

Reviewing the potassium, phosphorus, sodium and overall nutritional value of a food can be useful when making choices about what to eat for a kidney…

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Kidney Diet Tips
June 8th, 2021· By Dawn Johnson, MS, RDN, LD

Making Homemade Salad Dressing

Are salads a healthy choice or a diet disaster? When I was in junior high school, our school cafeteria had a salad bar. The salad…

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Kidney Diet Tips
June 2nd, 2021· By Sue Yager, MS, RDN, LDN

Back to Basics: Sodium Intake, Why is it Important?

Sodium is a mineral that either occurs naturally in foods or is added during manufacturing. Most people consume more sodium than is needed in their…

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Kidney Diet Tips
May 18th, 2021· By Lynn Taylor MS, RD, LD

Home Dialysis Myths

Deciding with your doctor what mode of dialysis best suits your clinical needs and lifestyle can feel daunting. The idea of performing dialysis at home…

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DaVita® Medical Insights
January 14th, 2021· By Managing Editor

Study: Use of Predictive Analytics to Inform Integrated Care Programs to Reduce Hospitalizations among Hemodialysis Patients

Integrated care for dialysis patients could benefit from identification of those who are at high risk for poor outcomes in order to efficiently deploy clinical…

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DaVita® Medical Insights
January 7th, 2021· By Managing Editor

Study: Blood Pressure Telemonitoring in a Large US Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Population

Home remote monitoring (HRM) is a telehealth strategy that utilizes cellular technology to transmit patients’ biometric data collected at home to the electronic health record…

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DaVita® Medical Insights
December 30th, 2020· By Managing Editor

DMI Podcasts: 2020 Year in Review

While the kidney community and the world at large faced the COVID-19 pandemic, DaVita Medical Insights (DMI) continued to publish a number of informative podcasts,…

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Kidney Diet Tips
nutrition facts label
June 15th, 2021 · By Hayley Bode, Dietetic Intern

Nutrition Facts Food Label: What’s New

Reviewing the potassium, phosphorus, sodium and overall nutritional value of a food can be useful when making choices about what to eat for a kidney…

Continue Reading »
Kidney Diet Tips
Fresh homemade salad dressing with rosemary, lemon and garlic
June 8th, 2021 · By Dawn Johnson, MS, RDN, LD

Making Homemade Salad Dressing

Are salads a healthy choice or a diet disaster? When I was in junior high school, our school cafeteria had a salad bar. The salad…

Continue Reading »
DaVita® Medical Insights
February 11th, 2021 · By Managing Editor

Study: Strategies to Prevent Infection-Related Losses in US Peritoneal Dialysis Programs by More Actionable Predictive Data Reporting

Peritoneal dialysis (PD)–associated peritonitis (PTN) accounts for a significant percentage of patients who transition to hemodialysis due to infection-related technique failure. Data reporting to individual…

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DaVita® Medical Insights
integrated care
January 14th, 2021 · By Managing Editor

Study: Use of Predictive Analytics to Inform Integrated Care Programs to Reduce Hospitalizations among Hemodialysis Patients

Integrated care for dialysis patients could benefit from identification of those who are at high risk for poor outcomes in order to efficiently deploy clinical…

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Kidney Diet Tips
July 9th, 2010 · By Sara Colman, RDN, CDCES

Best cereal choices for the kidney diet

Today I received a question about the best cereals for a person in stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD) to eat. Instead of sending my…

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Kidney Diet Tips
June 24th, 2014 · By Sara Colman, RDN, CDCES

Hemodialysis and fluid intake: How much to drink?

People on in-center hemodialysis usually have dialysis treatments three times a week. The amount of fluid they can have is limited since the kidneys lose…

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DaVita® Medical Insights
March 21st, 2017 · By Andrea Curtis, LCSW

Recognizing Social Workers on World Social Work Day

Dialysis patients and their families are often unaware of the breadth of support and resources available to them. These include transportation options, support groups, educational…

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DaVita® Medical Insights
February 23rd, 2017 · By Robert Provenzano, MD, FACP, FASN

Acute Kidney Injury Patients Now Receiving Dialysis in an Outpatient Setting

This January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave dialysis centers the ability to provide dialysis services to acute kidney injury (AKI) patients….

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