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Advance Care Planning in CKD: What Is the Evidence?
Dr. Tim Luckett Dr. Josephine M. Clayton Advance care planning (ACP) is a process of reflection and discussion involving the patient, the patient’s family, and healthcare providers to clarify values,...
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SCM14: Social Work Program
I crashed the social work program for Mary Beth Callahan’s talk entitled ‘Acceptance Doesn’t Mean Giving Up.’ The room was packed with nurses and social workers interested in learning about ways to...
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SCM14: Palliative Care and Dialysis
Yin and yang… peanut butter and chocolate… Astaire and Rogers… palliative care and dialysis? Today’s workshop on this topic (palliative care and dialysis, that is), moderated by yours truly and...
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Insight into Patients’& Caregivers’ Perspectives on Conservative Management...
Dr. Katharine Cheung Patients with end-stage kidney disease often experience clinical and psychological set backs that negatively impact quality of life and survival. Growing data suggest a role for...
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Palliative Care Nephrology: A Call for Action in Fellowship Training
Palliative care (PC) training and experience of US adult nephrology fellows was not known. It was also not clear whether nephrology fellows in the US undergo formal training in PC medicine during...
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Conservative Care – A Conversation To Be Had
“I can’t remember [staff] ever suggesting or saying that there is a third option – of not having dialysis.” (Man on dialysis, aged 82 years) This quotation is from a recent article published in AJKD by...
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Test Your Knowledge: Geriatric and Palliative Care Nephrology
The aging population with chronic kidney disease has called for a paradigm shift in the approach to treatment decision-making. Nephrologists are faced with unique challenges as many elderly patients...
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Dialysis Initiation in Patients with Poor Prognosis: An Opportunity to Reflect
Copyright: picsfive / 123RF Stock Photo The world of renal medicine has witnessed revolutionary advancements since the first successful dialysis in 1945. Over the past seven decades, with the efforts...
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Nephrologists’ Perspectives on Discussing Conservative Management in CKD: A...
Qualitative research is a broad methodological approach that uses non-numerical data to understand an individual’s knowledge, motivations, and attitudes toward a problem. If performed rigorously,...
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#NephMadness 2020: Ethics Region
Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2020 | #NephMadness | #EthicsRegion Selection Committee Member: Amaka Eneanya @AmakaEMD Amaka Eneanya is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and attending nephrologist...
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#NephMadness 2020: Koncicki’s Pick for the Ethics Region – Dialysis for...
Holly Koncicki @HollyMarieMD Holly Koncicki completed her medicine residency training at Mount Sinai Hospital, followed by completion of an integrated fellowship in nephrology and palliative medicine....
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Rethinking Kidney Supportive Care – More Than Just End-of-Life
Comfort care. Palliative care. Supportive care. All of these terms feel weighty and may have slightly different meanings to healthcare providers. A recent Core Curriculum focuses on kidney supportive...
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#NephMadness 2023: Transitions of Care Region
Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2023 | #NephMadness | #TransitionsRegion Selection Committee Member: Rasheeda Hall @Rasheeda_HallMD Rasheeda Hall is a physician-scientist in the Division of Nephrology...
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#NephMadness 2023 – Kidney Supportive Care: Supporting All Transitions in...
Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2023 | #NephMadness | #TransitionsRegion Kelly Li Dr. Kelly Li is a dual-trained nephrologist and palliative care physician from St George Hospital in Sydney,...
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Highlights from the May 2023 Issue
Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned,...
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Kidney Transplant Clinicians’ Perceptions of Palliative Care: An Interview
Kidney transplant patients experience physical and psychological suffering in the context of their illnesses that may be amenable to palliative care. However, palliative care is often underutilized in...
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Highlights from the February 2024 Issue
Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned,...
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Highlights from the March 2024 Issue
Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned,...
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Kidney Transplant Candidates and Recipients Need Advance Care Planning and...
Dr. Megan Urbanski (@MeganUrbanski) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, in the Emory University School of Medicine. She received a master’s...
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Transplant Implantation Biopsies: An Interview
Some living donor kidneys are found to have biopsy evidence of chronic scarring and/or glomerular disease at implantation, but it is unclear if these biopsy findings help predict donor kidney recovery...
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