End-stage renal disease treatment options education: What matters most to patients and families.
Journal Article (Journal Article;Review)
Treatment modality education can offer many important benefits to patients and their families. Evidence suggests such education can increase use of home dialysis, reduce catheter use, decrease 90-day mortality, and increase transplantation. While these benefits are encouraging, not all patients are offered options education and when they are, it may not be presented in a way that is immediately applicable to them and their lives. Furthermore, little is known regarding specific characteristics (e.g. format such as group or individual or in-person or online, duration, teaching methods, location, content) of educational programs that are most successful. No single approach has emerged as a best practice. In the absence of such evidence, adult learning principles, such as involving patients and families in the development programs and materials, can serve as a guide for educational development. Adult learning principles can enhance options education, evolving them from information delivery to a person-centered, values-based endeavor that helps match treatment to values and lifestyle.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- St Clair Russell, J; Boulware, LE
Published Date
- March 2018
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 31 / 2
Start / End Page
- 122 - 128
PubMed ID
- 29315798
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1525-139X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1111/sdi.12665
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States