Patient Education and Selection of Peritoneal Dialysis
Abstract
Our first study was a systematic review that explored the relationship between patient-targeted educational interventions and the selection and use of PD. Of 3540 citations screened, 15 studies met our inclusion criteria. Patient targeted educational interventions were associated with a 2-fold increase in the odds of choosing PD. Our second study used data from this randomized trial to explore if the observed increased likelihood of choosing self-care dialysis resulted in increased likelihood of receiving self-care dialysis. In this clinical trial, seventy patients were randomized to receive either standard care or the educational intervention in 2003. The proportion of patients who received self-care dialysis as their first treatment in extended follow-up was not significantly different between the intervention group and the usual care group. In summary, this thesis work found a strong association between patient-targeted education interventions and the subsequent selection of PD, the most common form of self-care dialysis.
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Keywords
Epidemiology, Health Care Management, Medicine and Surgery
Citation
Devoe, D. (2016). Patient Education and Selection of Peritoneal Dialysis (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27271