Despite the logistical hurdles and required self-care, patients with kidney disease will find the benefits of home dialysis outweigh in-center hemodialysis, according to a speaker at the virtual Annual Dialysis Conference.
“Home dialysis is the proverbial moon of chronic dialysis, and we should go,” Eric D. Weinhandl, PhD, MS, senior director of data analytics and home therapies for Satellite Healthcare, said.
Weinhandl made the comment in reference to a speech by President John F. Kennedy at Rice University in 1962 about flying to the moon.
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