Expanding Home Dialysis for Kidney Disease Feasible and Safe

It is feasible and safe to widen the availability of peritoneal dialysis performed at home as initial treatment for patients with advanced chronic renal disease, according to new US research.
In a large-scale program implemented within their integrated healthcare delivery system, Kaiser Permanente Northern California was able to more than double the number of patients with end-stage renal disease starting dialysis using this method over a 10-year period.
Moreover, expanding home dialysis was not associated with increased mortality over time and most patients were still on it 1 year later, according to the results, published online September 9 in JAMA Internal Medicine by Leonid V. Pravoverov, MD,  chief of nephrology for Kaiser Permanente's East Bay service area, California, and colleagues. -- > READ MORE