Urgency for Kidney Palliative Care in Chinese Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The aim of this study is to understand nephrology medical staff's awareness of, basic knowledge of, practical ability of, and the barriers to palliative kidney care to patients on maintenance hemodialysis (HD) in mainland China.

Methods

This cross-sectional descriptive study employed convenience sampling of medical staff (physicians and nurses) working in nephrology departments in mainland China. Independent predictors of self-assessment ability for palliative care (PC) were determined using multivariate binary logistic regression.

Results

Responses were received from medical staff in 28 provinces and 657 questionnaires were analyzed. Among the participants, 53.1% (349/657) were doctors, and only 4.3% claimed to be confident in providing PC to patients on

SUBMITTER: Zhang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10719599 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature