title: Integrating peritoneal and home haemodialysis: a nurse's perspective from a single centre.
abstract: Home based dialytic therapy is underutilized in most renal centres. This article describes a nurse led and delivered approach to problem solving from a patient perspective, resulting in an increase in prevalent and incident patient numbers on home HD and peritoneal dialysis. Overall, between 2004 and 2010 home-based therapies have risen from 61 to 119 prevalent patients, with a fall in in-centre patient numbers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK.
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rhodes
authors.affiliation: Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK.
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Beech
authors.affiliation: Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK.
authors.forename: Lindsay
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chesterton
authors.affiliation: Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fluck
keywords: Peritoneal dialysis; community care; home haemodialysis; multidisciplinary team