Perspectives on clinical use of bioimpedance in hemodialysis: focus group interviews with renal care professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inadequate volume control may be a main contributor to poor survival and high mortality in hemodialysis patients. Bioimpedance measurement has the potential to improve fluid management, but several dialysis centers lack an agreed fluid management policy, and the method has not yet been implemented. Our aim was to identify renal care professionals' perceived barriers and facilitators for use of bioimpedance in clinical practice.

Methods

Qualitative data were collected through four focus group interviews with 24 renal care professionals: dieticians, nephrologists and nurses, recruited voluntarily from a nation-wide selection of hemodialysis centers, having access to a bioimpedance-device. The participants were connected to each other and a moderator via equipment fo

SUBMITTER: Stenberg J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5966881 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature