Feasibility of universal home haemodialysis with simplified techniques.
Maintenance haemodialysis was offered to an unselected series of patients presenting with end-stage renal disease between 1975 and 1982. Of the initial 283 patients, 274 started on haemodialysis, and 89% of these were alive and available for follow-up beyond the first 3 months of treatment. 98% of the latter eventually achieved permanent home haemodialysis with a system using simplified dialysis equipment and procedures, together with training methods designed to reinforce patient motivation. Universal home haemodialysis is now feasible when appropriate techniques are used.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D006437:Hemodialysis, Home / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation