ArticlePloS one2021
Good practices for dialysis education, treatment, and eHealth: A scoping review.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Educational or Behavioural Interventions to Improve Long-Term Haemodialysis Vascular Access Self-Management: A Systematic Review.Journal of renal care · 2025Pooled it
- Patient engagement during the transition from nondialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease to dialysis: A meta-ethnography.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023Pooled it
- Quality of life experience in physically frail people on renal dialysis: A qualitative meta-synthesis on the difficulties and resources for better health care.International journal of nursing sciences · 2025Review
- Participation in eHealth Communication Interventions Among Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Functionality and Usability of mHealth Apps in Patients with Peritoneal Dialysis: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Evaluating the Effects of Kidney Preservation at 10 °C with Hemopure and Sodium Thiosulfate in a Rat Model of Syngeneic Orthotopic Kidney Transplantation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Normal Proteasome Function Is Needed to Prevent Kidney Graft Injury during Cold Storage Followed by Transplantation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- The Optimization of Renal Graft Preservation Temperature to Mitigate Cold Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Kidney Transplantation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundRecommendations regarding dialysis education and treatment are provided in various (inter)national guidelines, which should ensure that these are applied uniformly in nephrology and dialysis centers. However, there is much practice variation which could be explained by good practices: practices developed by local health care professionals, which are not evidence-based. Because an overview of good practices is lacking, we performed a scoping review to identify and summarize the available good practices for dialysis education, treatment, and eHealth.
methodsEmbase, Pubmed, the Cochrane Library, CINAHL databases and Web of Science were searched for relevant articles using all synonyms for the words 'kidney failure', 'dialysis', and 'good practice'. Relevant articles were structured according to the categories dialysis education, dialysis treatment or eHealth, and assessed for content and results.
resultsNineteen articles (12 for dialysis education, 3 for dialysis treatment, 4 for eHealth) are identified. The good practices for education endorse the importance of providing complete and objective predialysis education, assisting peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients in adequately performing PD, educating hemodialysis (HD) patients on self-management, and talking with dialysis patients about their prognosis. The good practices for dialysis treatment focus mainly on dialysis access devices and general quality improvement of dialysis care. Finally, eHealth is useful for HD and PD and affects both quality of care and health-related quality of life.
conclusionOur scoping review identifies 19 articles describing good practices and their results for dialysis education, dialysis treatment, and eHealth. These good practices could be valuable in addition to guidelines for increasing shared-decision making in predialysis education, using patients' contribution in the implementation of their dialysis treatment, and advanced care planning.
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