All posts by Martin Schreiber, MD
Evaluating In-Center Hemodialysis (ICHD) Patients for Home Dialysis
Patient non-adherence to the dialysis schedule or prescribed medication is a common challenge for clinicians serving hemodialysis (HD) patients and has been associated with significant…
Continue Reading »Podcast: Competency Hubs in Nephrology
“Competency is a critical factor in every practice as health care in America shifts from what we have understood historically as a volume-based approach to…
Continue Reading »CMMI Models, Part II: Increasing Home Dialysis
Those of us in the nephrology field are well aware of the serious health impacts and substantial costs of kidney disease. Now on the national…
Continue Reading »In-Center Nocturnal Hemodialysis, Part III: Prescription and Operational Guidelines
In-center nocturnal hemodialysis (INHD) is a hybrid modality administered at a dialysis facility at night typically for six to eight hours, three times per week….
Continue Reading »In-Center Nocturnal Hemodialysis, Part II: Optimal Patient Characteristics
In-center nocturnal hemodialysis (INHD) is a unique form of dialysis treatment that is performed in a dialysis center at night, typically for six or more…
Continue Reading »In-Center Nocturnal Hemodialysis, Part I: Clinical Benefits
In-center nocturnal hemodialysis (INHD) is a hybrid in-center modality administered at a dialysis facility at night for six to eight hours, typically beginning between 5…
Continue Reading »Personalized Dialysis: Selecting the Right Treatment from the Start
Over the past decade, several countries around the world have embraced home dialysis as a preferred initial therapy for managing kidney failure in clinically appropriate patients…
Continue Reading »Alternative Practices to Simultaneously Placing a Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter and Arteriovenous Fistula
Nephrologists often recommend concurrently placing an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) with a peritoneal dialysis catheter (PDC) in patients who are starting dialysis therapy on peritoneal dialysis…
Continue Reading »Reducing Hospitalizations among Peritoneal Dialysis Patients
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is often considered superior to in-center hemodialysis (HD) in terms of a number of clinical outcomes (e.g., preservation of residual renal function)…
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