Healthcare workload associated with transition onto kidney replacement therapy: a retrospective cohort study
Catrin H Jones, Benjamin Edgar, Peter C Thomson, Katie I Gallacher, Stephen Knight, David Kingsmore, Patrick B Mark, Karen Stevenson, Bhautesh Jani · 2025
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Description
Catrin Jones and co-authors count the hours of care that starting kidney replacement therapy demands in a 2025 study. For patients whose kidneys have failed, the switch to dialysis or a transplant is an intense stretch: frequent clinic visits, procedures, hospital stays, and dialysis sessions fill the week. Cancer research calls this burden time toxicity, and the team borrows the idea for kidney care.
Their retrospective study follows all adults who began replacement therapy in their service, by any of the three routes. They add up the time-based workload of the transition from records. They also test which patient traits go with a heavier load. Counting time as a cost in its own right can change how services schedule the handover and support the patients who carry most.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Catrin H Jones, Benjamin Edgar, Peter C Thomson, Katie I Gallacher, Stephen Knight, David Kingsmore, Patrick B Mark, Karen Stevenson, Bhautesh Jani |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |