Availability, Accessibility, and Quality of Conservative Kidney Management Worldwide

• Published in: Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 79 - 87
• Main Authors: Lunney, Meaghan, Bello, Aminu K., Levin, Adeera, Tam-Tham, Helen, Thomas, Chandra, Osman, Mohamed A., Ye, Feng, Bellorin-Font, Ezequiel, Benghanem Gharbi, Mohammed, Ghnaimat, Mohammad, Htay, Htay, Cho, Yeoungjee, Jha, Vivekanand, Ossareh, Shahrzad, Rondeau, Eric, Sola, Laura, Tchokhonelidze, Irma, Tesar, Vladimir, Tungsanga, Kriang, Kazancioglu, Rumeyza Turan, Wang, Angela Yee-Moon, Yang, Chih-Wei, Zemchenkov, Alexander, Zhao, Ming-hui, Jager, Kitty J., Jindal, Kailash K., Okpechi, Ikechi G., Brown, Edwina A., Brown, Mark, Tonelli, Marcello, Harris, David C., Johnson, David W., Caskey, Fergus J., Davison, Sara N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society of Nephrology 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Conservative Treatment - standards; Decision Making, Shared; Developed Countries - statistics & numerical data; Developing Countries - statistics & numerical data; Health Services Accessibility - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Internationality; Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy; Original; Patient Care Team - statistics & numerical data; Quality of Health Care; Religion; Social Support; Surveys and Questionnaires; global health; kidney failure; survey; conservative kidney management; capacity

People with kidney failure typically receive KRT in the form of dialysis or transplantation. However, studies have suggested that not all patients with kidney failure are best suited for KRT. Additionally, KRT is costly and not always accessible in resource-restricted settings. Conservative kidney m...