The use of virtual physician mentoring to enhance home dialysis knowledge and uptake
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2021
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Ashley, J.
Abra, G.
Schiller, B.
Bennett, P.N.
Mehr, A.P.
Bargman, J.M.
Chan, C.T.
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Nephrology, 2021; 26(7):569-577
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Home dialysis therapies are flexible kidney replacement strategies with documented clinical benefits. While the incidence of end-stage kidney disease continues to increase globally, the use of home dialysis remains low in most developed countries. Multiple barriers to providing home dialysis have been noted in the published literature. Among known challenges, gaps in clinician knowledge are potentially addressable with a focused education strategy. Recent national surveys in the United States and Australia have highlighted the need for enhanced home dialysis knowledge especially among nephrologists who have recently completed training. Traditional in-person continuing professional educational programmes have had modest success in promoting home dialysis and are limited by scale and the present global COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesize that the use of a ‘Hub and Spoke’ model of virtual home dialysis mentorship for nephrologists based on project ECHO would support home dialysis growth. We review the home dialysis literature, known educational gaps and plausible educational interventions to address current limitations in physician education
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Link to a related website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/nep.13867, Open Access via Unpaywall
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Copyright 2021 Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology.