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International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis practice recommendations: prescribing high-quality goal-directed peritoneal dialysis (2020)
Journal Article
Brown, E., Blake, P., Boudville, N., Davies, S., de Arteaga, J., Dong, J., …Warady, B. (2020). International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis practice recommendations: prescribing high-quality goal-directed peritoneal dialysis. Peritoneal dialysis international, 40(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0896860819895364

The International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis last published a guideline on prescribing peritoneal dialysis (PD) in 2006. This focused on clearance of toxins and used a measure of waste product removal by dialysis using urea as an example. This g... Read More about International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis practice recommendations: prescribing high-quality goal-directed peritoneal dialysis.

Prescribing high-quality peritoneal dialysis: moving beyond urea clearance (2020)
Journal Article
Glavinovic, T., Hurst, H., Hutchison, A., Johansson, L., Ruddock, N., & Perl, J. (2020). Prescribing high-quality peritoneal dialysis: moving beyond urea clearance. Peritoneal dialysis international, 40(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0896860819893571

Urea removal in peritoneal dialysis (PD) has been a primary measure of dialysis adequacy, but its utility remains limited due to its poor correlation with the clearance of other important uraemic retention solutes and the low certainty of evidence re... Read More about Prescribing high-quality peritoneal dialysis: moving beyond urea clearance.

Delivering peritoneal dialysis for the multimorbid, frail and palliative patient (2020)
Journal Article
Brown, E., & Hurst, H. (2020). Delivering peritoneal dialysis for the multimorbid, frail and palliative patient. Peritoneal dialysis international, 40(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0896860819893558

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is only one component of care for older multimorbid, frail and/or palliative patients. Goals of care should be determined for all patients by shared decision-making at the start of during time on PD. Burden of PD should be mi... Read More about Delivering peritoneal dialysis for the multimorbid, frail and palliative patient.