Clinical research: making it work in the outpatient dialysis facility.
Performing clinical research in the outpatient dialysis facility can be very challenging. Research protocols define time-specific and detailed procedures to be performed. In dialysis units where staff members are responsible for the delivery of life-sustaining therapy to an aging end stage renal disease patient population with multiple co-morbidities, these requirements can easily be considered too burdensome to be implemented successfully. In the authors'facility, clinical research has been successfully implemented with a close team approach supported by a dedicated research group and unit staff
Doss
Sheila
S
Satellite Healthcare, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA.
Schiller
Brigitte
B
Fox
Rosemary
R
Moran
John
J
D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D035843:Biomedical Research; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy*; D006435:Renal Dialysis