Improved nursing home end-stage renal disease patient participation in physical therapy with onsite, more frequent dialysis.
Eran Y BellinWilliam T MarkisAlice M HellebrandChristine M BusbyKaty A WaneCamille R JordanJordan G LedvinaSteven M KaplanTodd R MetzrothGreg S WilliamsArif NazirNathan W LevinAllen M KaufmanPublished in: Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis (2023)
SNF-resident ESRD patients receiving MFD colocated with rehabilitation had higher PT participation rates than those conventionally dialyzed offsite and equivalent PT participation rates to the non-ESRD SNF-rehabilitation general population, despite being sicker, less independent, and less mobile. We report a scalable program integrating dialysis and rehabilitation care as a potential solution for ESRD patients recovering from acute hospitalization.