Setting Priorities for Optimizing Vascular Access Decision Making--An International Survey of Patients and Clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many decisions around vascular access for haemodialysis warrant a collaborative treatment decision-making process, involving both clinician and patient. Yet, patients' experiences in this regard have been suboptimal. Although clinical practice guidelines could facilitate collaborative decision making, they often focus on the clinicians' side of the process, while failing to address the patients' perspective. The objective of this study was to explore and compare kidney patients' and clinicians' views on what vascular access-related decisions deserved priority for developing guidelines that will contribute to optimizing collaborative decision making.

Methods

In the context of updating their vascular access guideline, European Renal Best Practice surveyed an interna

SUBMITTER: van der Veer SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4494812 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature