RT @Lucy_Selman: 📢 New paper in @BMJ_Open led by @BarnyHole, from his brilliant PhD. ‘It’s basically ‘have that or die’’: a qualitative st….

Finally made the time to read this excellent paper in full. Such important and practice informing work. 1) findings might explain the gap between what clinicians recall saying, and what patients report hearing, and 2) why wasn't this snapped up by one of our biggest journals?!.

3/2 the paper is now typeset with all author corrections ***OPEN ACCESS*** here:

. 2/2 but the devil is in the detail: Some need much more, some would only accept care at home, others in hospital, and some appeared to need no benefit to independence or survival to accept dialysis. More work needed to ensure people are supported to make these hard choices.

Overall, older people facing kidney failure needed an average 13% absolute survival benefit at two years (maybe equivalent to a year's life extension) to tolerate three hospital dialysis sessions a week. 1/2.

@Kidney_Int @NIHRresearch @RachaelMorton12 . 2/2 but the devil is in the detail: Some need much more, some would only accept care at home, others in hospital, and some appeared to need no benefit to independence or survival to accept dialysis. More work needed to ensure people are supported to make these hard choices.

Overall, older people facing kidney failure needed an average 13% absolute survival benefit at two years (maybe equivalent to a year's life extension) to tolerate three hospital dialysis sessions a week. 1/2 @Kidney_Int @NIHRresearch @RachaelMorton12.

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RT @amjhypertension: A secondary analysis of SPRINT using a 60 year elderly cutoff (versus 75 in the prespecified analysis). .

RT @DrAWinterbottom: There’s still time to register for the excellent supportive care meeting in October and the PD Academy that follows… i….

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RT @RCPDMeetings: Early Registration Deadline for Supportive Renal Care and PD Academy Meetings is on Monday! .📢 Don't miss out the discoun….

RT @Emma33653404: Looking forward to presenting my research at this years @TheWKRU AGM 'Understanding why people say "no" to a kidney trans….

RT @JASN_News: Patients with ESKD access hospice care only about half as often as patients in the general Medicare population. This study i….

RT @JAMAInternalMed: Findings of this meta-analysis suggest that colorectal cancer screening with sigmoidoscopy may extend life by approxim….

RT @DrAWinterbottom: Do you use the Difficult Conversations booklet? If so, there is still time to give us feedback. Your views will help u….

RT @hospicedoctor: Dying is not a niche condition .Everyone will die. Yet …every hospice has closed beds.Hospital palliative teams are on t….

RT @UKKidney: "Ethnicity disparities in patients with #kidneyfailure in the UK". Read the latest report now:. 📖 .

RT @Kidney_Research: This is the reality of dialysis. Patients usually undergo four-hour sessions three times a week, and it is time consu….