BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The effect of in-hospital education on the adoption of home dialysis (peritoneal dialysis [PD] and home hemodialysis [HHD]) after an unplanned dialysis start is unknown. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: Clinical demographics of consecutive patients acutely initiating hemodialysis (HD) from January 2005 to December 2009 were abstracted using institutional electronic records. All patients received multimedia chronic kidney disease education by the same advanced care nurse practitioner before discharge from the hospital. Clinical characteristics of patients choosing home dialysis or staying on in-center HD were compared. RESULTS: Between 2005 and 2009, 228 patients acutely started renal replacement therapy (RRT) at the center. Seventy-one patients chose home dialysis (49 patients adopted PD and 22 adopted HHD), 132 chose to remain on in-center HD, and 25 died before discharge from the hospital. Patients adopting home dialysis tended to be younger than in-center HD patients (55 ± 18 [home dialysis] versus 59 ± 16 [in center] years; P=0.09) and were similar in gender distribution (49% [home dialysis] versus 56% [in center] male; P=0.2). Patients adopting home dialysis were more likely to have a failed kidney transplant (24% [home dialysis] versus 12% [in center]; P=0.045) and less likely to have ischemic nephropathy (9% [home dialysis] versus 21% [in center]; P=0.03). The distribution of comorbid conditions was different between patients adopting home dialysis and in-center HD. CONCLUSIONS: Home dialysis is feasible after urgent dialysis start. Education should be promoted among patient experiencing acute-start dialysis.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The effect of in-hospital education on the adoption of home dialysis (peritoneal dialysis [PD] and home hemodialysis [HHD]) after an unplanned dialysis start is unknown. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: Clinical demographics of consecutive patients acutely initiating hemodialysis (HD) from January 2005 to December 2009 were abstracted using institutional electronic records. All patients received multimedia chronic kidney disease education by the same advanced care nurse practitioner before discharge from the hospital. Clinical characteristics of patients choosing home dialysis or staying on in-center HD were compared. RESULTS: Between 2005 and 2009, 228 patients acutely started renal replacement therapy (RRT) at the center. Seventy-one patients chose home dialysis (49 patients adopted PD and 22 adopted HHD), 132 chose to remain on in-center HD, and 25 died before discharge from the hospital. Patients adopting home dialysis tended to be younger than in-center HDpatients (55 ± 18 [home dialysis] versus 59 ± 16 [in center] years; P=0.09) and were similar in gender distribution (49% [home dialysis] versus 56% [in center] male; P=0.2). Patients adopting home dialysis were more likely to have a failed kidney transplant (24% [home dialysis] versus 12% [in center]; P=0.045) and less likely to have ischemic nephropathy (9% [home dialysis] versus 21% [in center]; P=0.03). The distribution of comorbid conditions was different between patients adopting home dialysis and in-center HD. CONCLUSIONS: Home dialysis is feasible after urgent dialysis start. Education should be promoted among patient experiencing acute-start dialysis.
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