"Home dialysis is growing but more tools are needed"
written by Eric D. Weinhandl, PhD, MS, an epidemiologist and the senior director of data analytics and home therapies at Satellite Healthcare, and published in the September 2022 edition of Healio's Nephrology News & Issues.
Excerpt:
"Five-year timelines to complete political processes — such as those ending with small modifications to the bundled payment — or to recruit patients to home dialysis device studies that are unlikely to generate surprising information have a real cost — one that is borne by patients who could live healthier, more goal-concordant lives if they could more easily dialyze at home (or a setting like home)."
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