Peritoneal Dialysis Resources

See below for downloadable files hosted on ESRD Network of Texas website (referenced by PD Guide).

PD Patient and Compliance/Adherence

  • Intensive Intervention for the Non-Compliant Patient
    Author: ESRD Network of Texas, Inc. (NW #14)
    Content includes a short, concise practical booklet with a series of linked steps to help clinic staff understand and deal proactively with noncompliance issues.
  • Techniques to Improve Compliance in HD and PD Patients - Part II
    Authors: H. Batson, M. Schwartz (Nephrology News and Issues - July 1999:54-58)
    Content includes practical interventions to increase compliant behaviors in PD patients.
  • The Behavior Contract as a Positive Patient Experience
    Author: R. Valdez - ESRD Network of Texas, Inc. (NW #14) (Lone Star Bulletin - Fall 2002)
    Content includes lists and discusses the essential components of a successful behavior contract. (Statements of responsibility from patient and facility, Naming a staff monitor, Time Frame and Monitoring, Review of contract)

Data Collection and Quality Management Issues

  • Using CQI Techniques for Managing Infections in PD patients
    Authors: J. A. Diaz-Buxo, G. Wick and A. Pesich (Nephrology News and Issues - November 1998:22-24)
    Content includes a discussion of CQI steps as they relate to the management of infections in PD patients.
  • Improving Management of Anemia Using CQI Techniques
    Authors: Berns, Cahill, Okupinski and O'Neill (Nephrology News and Issues - September 1997:11-13)
    Content includes patient specific QI activities, program trending, patterns and trends of patient selection, focus on appropriate practices associated with best outcomes, and identify risk factors.
  • ESRD Network of Texas, Inc. PD Run Charts
    Author: ESRD Network of Texas, Inc. (NW #14)
    Content includes modifiable run charts in PowerPointTM format for documenting facility specific data for PD adequacy, anemia management, osteodystrophy management, albumin and peritonitis rate.

Management of a PD Program

Patient Education Resources

  • Life Goes On... After Your Kidneys Stop Working
    Author: ESRD Network of Texas, Inc. (NW #14)
    Content includes a comprehensive patient education book written at a 6th grade level, emphasizing healthy choices and decision-making on the part of the patient. Stresses the patient's role as an active member of the healthcare team. Includes chapters on modality choices, how to stay healthy on PD, diet, medicines, exercising, work and advance directives.
  • Why Am I So Thirsty?, Porque Mé Da Tanta Sed?
    Author: ESRD Network of Texas, Inc. (NW #14)
    Content includes a colorful patient education booklet in cartoon format that talks about causes of thirst and how to control it.

 

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