Home run-results of a chronic kidney disease Telemedicine Patient Education Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) incidence is increasing and associated mortality and morbidity are high. Educating patients is effective in delaying progression and establishing optimal renal replacement therapy (RRT). Tele-education/telemedicine (TM) can be an effective tool to provide such education, but there are no available data quantifying its effectiveness. We attempted to establish such evidence correlating the effect of education in patient choices and with the start of actual RRT. We present results from a 3-year pilot study evaluating the effectiveness of comprehensive predialysis education (CPE) through TM for CKD patients compared with a standard care group [face to face (FTF)]. The patient's ability to choose RRT was the primary endpoint.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Easom AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7577756 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature