Nephrologists' Perspectives on Defining and Applying Patient-Centered Outcomes in Hemodialysis

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Patient centeredness is widely advocated as a cornerstone of health care, but it is yet to be fully realized, including in nephrology. Our study aims to describe nephrologists' perspectives on defining and implementing patient-centered outcomes in hemodialysis.

DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: Face-to-face, semistructured interviews were conducted with 58 nephrologists from 27 dialysis units across nine countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Singapore, and New Zealand. Transcripts were thematically analyzed.

RESULTS: We identified five themes on defining and implementing patient-centered outcomes in hemodialysis: explicitly prioritized by patients (articulated preferences and goals, ascertaining treatment burden, defining hemodialysis success, distinguishing a physician-patient dichotomy, and supporting shared decision making), optimizing wellbeing (respecting patient choice, focusing on symptomology, perceptible and tangible, and judging relevance and consequence), comprehending extensive heterogeneity of clinical and quality of life outcomes (distilling diverse priorities, highly individualized, attempting to specify outcomes, and broadening context), clinically hamstrung (professional deficiency, uncertainty and complexity in measurement, beyond medical purview, specificity of care, mechanistic mindset [focused on biochemical targets and comorbidities], avoiding alarm, and paradoxical dilemma), and undermined by system pressures (adhering to overarching policies, misalignment with mandates, and resource constraints).

CONCLUSIONS: Improving patient-centered outcomes is regarded by nephrologists to encompass strategies that address patient goals and improve wellbeing and treatment burden in patients on hemodialysis. However, efforts are hampered by ambiguities about how to prioritize, measure, and manage the plethora of critical comorbidities and broader quality of life outcomes in a care setting that is technically demanding and driven by biochemical targets. Identifying critical patient-important outcomes and mechanisms for integrating them into practice may help to deliver patient-centered care in hemodialysis and other chronic disease settings.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Mar 7;12 (3):382-384. - PMID 28223289

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - 12(2017), 3 vom: 07. März, Seite 454-466

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tong, Allison [VerfasserIn]
Winkelmayer, Wolfgang C [VerfasserIn]
Wheeler, David C [VerfasserIn]
van Biesen, Wim [VerfasserIn]
Tugwell, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Manns, Braden [VerfasserIn]
Hemmelgarn, Brenda [VerfasserIn]
Harris, Tess [VerfasserIn]
Crowe, Sally [VerfasserIn]
Ju, Angela [VerfasserIn]
O'Lone, Emma [VerfasserIn]
Evangelidis, Nicole [VerfasserIn]
Craig, Jonathan C [VerfasserIn]
SONG-HD Initiative [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Chronic Disease
Comorbidity
Decision Making
Germany
Goals
Great Britain
Hemodialysis
Humans
Journal Article
Nephrology
New Zealand
Patient Selection
Patient-Centered Care
Physician-Patient Relations
Qualitative research
Quality of life
Renal dialysis
Singapore
Uncertainty
United States

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 21.12.2017

Date Revised 12.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Mar 7;12 (3):382-384. - PMID 28223289

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2215/CJN.08370816

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM26917558X