Multidisciplinary renal-care journal Dialysis & Transplantation (D&T), published by Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced a partnership with the Medical Education Institute (MEI) and its Home Dialysis Central website. The journal and MEI will together create a list of dialysis clinics in the US that support home dialysis therapies. The new resource will be published in the July 2010 edition of The List, D&T's annual worldwide guide to clinics that accept travelling patients. MEI, creator and developer of Home Dialysis Central, is projected as a leading patient and educational sites for home dialysis.
D&T claims to be the oldest and largest circulation multidisciplinary renal-care journal with a primary focus on clinical application. The special expanded version of The List, claimed to be an important new resource for patients, will include listings of clinics that offer supplies and backup for peritoneal dialysis and training for home hemodialysis, as well as centres that allow self-cannulation and offer in-centre nocturnal dialysis.
The resource will be published in the July 2010 issue of D&T (www.eneph.com) and will be available on the Home Dialysis Central website (www.homedialysis.org).
In conjunction with this partnership, D&T's July issue will include a new how-to manual to help dialysis staff educate patients on self-cannulation. The full-colour, eight-page article, entitled 'A How-To Manual: The Art of Teaching Buttonhole Cannulation', is also available now for free download on Home Dialysis Central (www.homedialysis.org/buttonhole). The techniques described in this how-to manual, including tandem-hand cannulation, touch cannulation, and the buttonhole technique, can purportedly help people overcome their fear of needles and learn to self-cannulate.
D&T, which is celebrating its 39th year of publication, features industry news, the latest information on regulatory issues, and data from the latest research in the field.
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