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Digital Health Support: Current Status and Future Development for Enhancing Dialysis Patient Care and Empowering Patients.

Bernard Canaud, Andrew Davenport, Hélène Leray-Moragues, Marion Morena-Carrere, Jean Paul Cristol, Jeroen Kooman, Peter Kotanko

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Review in Toxins, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Cognitive impairment in chronic kidney disease: role of brain imaging, functional imaging, electroencephalography, cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and sensors.Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Bernard CanaudSchool of Medicine, Montpellier University, 9 Rue des Carmelites, 34090 Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0001-6854-2816
Andrew DavenportUCL Department of Renal Medicine, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Hélène Leray-MoraguesFondation Charles Mion, AIDER-SANTE, 34000 Montpellier, France.
Marion Morena-CarrerePhyMedExp, Department of Biochemistry and Hormonology, INSERM, CNRS, University Hospital Center of Montpellier, University of Montpellier, 34000 Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9563-5217
Jean Paul CristolFondation Charles Mion, AIDER-SANTE, 34000 Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0001-8563-7278
Jeroen KoomanDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Maastricht University Medical Center, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Peter KotankoRenal Research Institute, Icahn University, New York, NY 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4373-412X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease poses a growing global health concern, as an increasing number of patients progress to end-stage kidney disease requiring kidney replacement therapy, presenting various challenges including shortage of care givers and cost-related issues. In this narrative essay, we explore innovative strategies based on in-depth literature analysis that may help healthcare systems face these challenges, with a focus on digital health technologies (DHTs), to enhance removal and ensure better control of broader spectrum of uremic toxins, to optimize resources, improve care and outcomes, and empower patients. Therefore, alternative strategies, such as self-care dialysis, home-based dialysis with the support of teledialysis, need to be developed. Managing ESKD requires an improvement in patient management, emphasizing patient education, caregiver knowledge, and robust digital support systems. The solution involves leveraging DHTs to automate HD, implement automated algorithm-driven controlled HD, remotely monitor patients, provide health education, and enable caregivers with data-driven decision-making. These technologies, including artificial intelligence, aim to enhance care quality, reduce practice variations, and improve treatment outcomes whilst supporting personalized kidney replacement therapy. This narrative essay offers an update on currently available digital health technologies used in the management of HD patients and envisions future technologies that, through digital solutions, potentially empower patients and will more effectively support their HD treatments.

Indexed as

Renal DialysisTelemedicineDigital HealthHumansKidney Failure, ChronicPatient CarePatient ParticipationSelf Careartificial intelligencecost-effectivenessdigital technologyend-stage kidney diseasekidney replacement therapypatient outcomesuremic toxins

Identifiers

PMID38787063
PMCPMC11125858

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