Impact of an in-Hospital Patient Education Program on Choice of Renal Replacement Modality in Unplanned Dialysis Initiation

• Main Authors: Moritz Schanz (Author), Markus Ketteler (Author), Markus Heck (Author), Juergen Dippon (Author), Mark Dominik Alscher (Author), Martin Kimmel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background/Aims: Up to 50% patients requiring dialysis receive an urgent, unplanned start (UPS) to renal replacement therapy (RRT). Most of these are initiated with an intravenous catheter and commenced and maintained on hemodialysis (HD). Although peritoneal dialysis (PD) could be an equipotent ini...