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| NEWS & LATEST ARTICLES |
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| WEB RESOURCES |
| Latest Scientific Journal Articles on Home and Daily Dialysis Continually Updated! | |
| Home Dialysis Central web site | |
| Nocturnal Home Haemodialysis web site | |
| Home Dialyzors United web site | |
| Current Issues of Home Dialysis Central Newsletter | |
| Current Issue of At Home with AAKP an electronic newsletter produced and distributed by the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) | |
| Home At Last Newsletter from the NxStage web site | |
| Home Hemodialysis Fact Sheet (pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader.) from the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association | |
| PD and Home Hemo Coverage Maps from the Home Dialysis Central web site | |
| Home Hemodialysis (pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader) from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) web site | |
| Home Hemodialysis: Helping Patients Lead a Healthier Life online seminar from the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) | |
| Home Hemodialysis from the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC) | |
| Home Dialysis DVD from Home Dialysis Central web site | |
| Home Dialysis Assessment Tool (pdf) from the Home Dialysis Central web site | |
| Book: Daily and Nocturnal Hemodialysis by Lindsay, Buoncristiani, Lockridge, Pierratos, and Ting © 2004 | |
Book:
Help, I Need Dialysis! How
to have a good future with kidney disease by Dori Schatell,
MS and Dr. John Agar © 2012 |
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| Nocturnal Home Hemodialysis - A First Person Account, Part I and Part II by Michael Williams | |
| At Home With Dialysis - patient web site about her experiences on home dialysis. | |
| American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA web site) position on daily home hemodialysis | |
| Search result for Nocturnal dialysis by Google Continually Updated! | |
| Home Dialysis web sites by Yahoo! Continually Updated! | |
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| HOME AND NOCTURNAL DIALYSIS PROGRAMS |
| Find a home dialysis center in your area from the Home Dialysis Central web site | |
| The following Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) were prepared by the staff of the Nocturnal Home Hemodialysis (NHHD) program at the Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto. | |
| Lynchburg Nephrology (Virginia) has their Nightly Home Hemodialysis (NHHD) Program. | |
| Rogosin Kidney Center of The Rogosin Institute is the first center in the New York City metropolitan area to offer patients nocturnal hemodialysis. This type of self care home dialysis offers patients independence and freedom for day time activities. | |
Four, well known, not-for-profit dialysis providers:
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| PUBMED SEARCHES (National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE Database) |
| daily dialysis AND hemodialysis Continually Updated! | |
| home hemodialysis Continually Updated! | |
| nocturnal AND dialysis Continually Updated! | |
| MEDLINE / Pubmed Information from the National Library of Medicine | |
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| K/DOQI - Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative |
| NKF-K/DOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines Table of Contents | |||
| Clinical Practice Guidelines and Clinical Practice Recommendations 2008 Updates | |||
| I. | Measurement of Hemodialysis Adequacy (Guidelines 1-3) | ||
| II. | Hemodialysis Dose (Guidelines 4-6) | ||
| III. | Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN) Sampling (Guidelines 7-9) | ||
| V. | Hemodialysis Dose Troubleshooting (Guideline 14) | ||
| VI. | Maximizing Patient Compliance to the Hemodialysis Prescription (Guidelines 15-16) | ||
| K/DOQI Home Page from the National Kidney Foundation web site | |||
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| DISCUSSION FORUM |
| Daily, Home, Nocturnal Hemodialysis Discussion Forum - RenalWEB Discussion Forum | |
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| RELATED TOPICS |
| Adequate Hemodialysis Therapy - topic page from RenalWEB | |
| Hemodialysis Dose and Adequacy from NIDDK | |
| Clinical Practice Guideline on Adequacy of Hemodialysis - a book available from the Renal Physicians Association web site | |
| Consensus Statement: Mortality and Morbidity of Dialysis from the NIH Consensus Development Program (written in 1993 with 1998 update) | |
| Hemodialysis Advisory Information from the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) web site | |
| Statistical Analyses on dialysis patient hospitalization rates, morbidity, mortality, and more from Chronic Disease Research Group (CDRG) | |
| United States Renal Data System (USRDS) | |
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
| October 3-4, 2013 - Sixth Annual Manchester Symposium on Home Dialysis, The Lowry Hotel, Manchester, UK - symposium page (word doc), Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust web site, +0161 276 4411, e-mail |
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| INPUT / SUGGESTIONS |
| E-mail to RenalWEB on the Hemodialysis Adequacy Topic | |

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