Understanding the low take-up of home-based dialysis through a shared decision-making lens: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore how people with chronic kidney disease who are pre-dialysis, family members and healthcare professionals together navigate common shared decision-making processes and to assess how this impacts future treatment choice.

Design

Coproductive qualitative study, underpinned by the Making Good Decisions in Collaboration shared decision-model. Semistructured interviews with a purposive sample from February 2019 - January 2020. Interview data were analysed using framework analysis. Coproduction of logic models/roadmaps and recommendations.

Setting

Five Welsh kidney services.

Participants

95 participants (37 patients, 19 family members and 39 professionals); 44 people supported coproduction (18 patients, 8 family members and 18 professionals).

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SUBMITTER: Noyes J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8634024 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature