Category Archives: Clinical Care
Managing Depression in Dialysis Patients
Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began to require semiannual depression screenings. Several questions were raised among my nephrologist colleagues. How…
Continue Reading »Recovery Nutrition for Preventing Hospital Readmissions for Dialysis Patients
Approximately 35 percent of hospitalized dialysis patients are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge—which is higher than the estimated 17 to 18…
Continue Reading »Efforts to Increase Living Donor Kidney Donations and General Transplants
According to the National Kidney Foundation, there are more than 100,000 patients currently awaiting a kidney transplant in the United States. Of those, only 17…
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)…
Continue Reading »Addressing Diabetes Complications to Help Reduce Amputations
Adapted from the DaVita Clinical Education and Training Team’s continuing education offering, Taking the Amputations Out of Diabetes, by Donna Swartzendruber, MSN, RN, CNN. Anyone…
Continue Reading »Preparing for Success with Urgent-Start Peritoneal Dialysis
More than half of patients who progress to end stage renal disease (ESRD) do not have a distinct plan for treatment at the time of…
Continue Reading »Holiday Diet Tips to Share with Your Kidney Patients
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas and New Year’s Day: These holidays and others tend to revolve around traditions that include food, which can pose a…
Continue Reading »Podcast: Improving Medication Adherence in Dialysis Patients
Dialysis patients who don’t take their medications as prescribed may potentially experience additional complications with their health, more-frequent hospitalizations and even a higher mortality rate….
Continue Reading »Story: A Nephrologist Who Put Community First during Hurricane Michael
As we continue to recover from Hurricane Michael across the panhandle of Florida, I want to share a story of a physician who represents the…
Continue Reading »Podcast: Depression in End Stage Renal Disease Patients: Screening and Treatment Options
Depression is the most-common mental health concern for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD), affecting up to 30 percent of the population. Listen to…
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