The perspectives of Aboriginal patients and their health care providers on improving the quality of hemodialysis services: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT: Chronic kidney disease has a higher prevalence in Indigenous populations globally. The incidence of end-stage kidney disease in Australian Aboriginal people is eight times higher than non-Aboriginal Australians. Providing services to rural and remote Aboriginal people with chronic disease is challenging because of access and cultural differences. This study aims to describe and analyze the perspectives of Aboriginal patients' and health care providers' experience of renal services, to inform service improvement for rural Aboriginal hemodialysis patients. We conducted a thematic analysis of interviews with Aboriginal patients (n = 18) receiving hemodialysis in rural Australia and health care providers involved in their care (n = 29). An overarching theme of avoiding the "costly" crisis enco

SUBMITTER: Rix EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4309474 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature