Utilizing decision aids before discussing treatment options gives patients with chronic kidney disease hope and improves patients’ motivation to treat the disease, according to a speaker at the virtual Annual Dialysis Conference.
“I want you to see that a diagnosis of anything scary, including kidney failure is a personal tsunami. This is something that shakes the foundation of your life. It washes away everything that you know, changes all of your perspectives. So, it’s a . That’s the piece of medicine that I think U.S. healthcare in general doesn’t really do a very good job at,”