title: Computer interaction: demographics, adequacy, and nutrition.
abstract: Over 700 people attending the Opening Session of the Fourteenth Annual Peritoneal Dialysis Conference participated in the computer interaction exercise as keyboard responders. Responders were 50.5% nurses and 40.4% physicians. Of these, 70.4% were from North America and 19.6% were from Europe. Only 9.5% had been involved in chronic peritoneal dialysis for less than one year. Over half (56%) worked in programs with more than 30 chronic peritoneal dialysis patients. Their own personal choice of dialysis therapy was a form of chronic peritoneal dialysis in 82%. Serum albumin concentration was indicated as the main monitor of nutritional status by 79.1%. Dietary protein intake ranging from 1-1.2 was considered the preferred goal by 84.4% of responders, even though the majority of chronic peritoneal dialysis patients probably do not achieve dietary protein intake in this range. A minimum weekly KT/V urea of 1.7 was chosen as a minimum target by 53.4%. An increase in exchange volume was the most frequently chosen approach to the large, anuric, low-peritoneal transporter. Numerous other questions dealing with adequacy and nutrition were posed to the audience, and the findings are summarized herein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri Health Sciences Center, Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, Columbia.
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Nolph
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Khanna
authors.forename: Z J
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Twardowski
authors.forename: B F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Prowant
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003625:Data Collection; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy*; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000032:analysis; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D004044:Dietary Proteins; D012709:Serum Albumin