My Dialysis Plan
Developed in collaboration with patients, clinic personnel, and medical providers, My Dialysis Plan is designed to align dialysis care with patient-identified priorities, promote care individualization, and improve the care planning experience.
Program Materials
Development
- Dorough A, Forfang D, Murphy SL, Mold JW, Kshirsagar AV, DeWalt DA, Flythe JE. Development of a person-centered interdisciplinary plan-of-care program for dialysis. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2020 Aug 1;35(8):1426-1435. ePub 2020 Feb 21. PMID: 32083669
Implementation
- Dorough A, Forfang D, Mold JW, Kshirsagar AV, DeWalt DA, Flythe JE. A Person-Centered Interdisciplinary Plan-of-Care Program for Dialysis: Implementation and Preliminary Testing. Kidney Med. 2021 Feb 5 [ePub ahead of Print].
- Kemp, P and Cohen, R. A Blueprint for Planning Person-Centered Dialysis Care. Kidney Med. 2021 March 5 [ePub ahead of Print].
Communication
Shared Decision-Making
Care Planning Tools
- Jennifer “Jenny” Flythe, Nephrologist & Co-Project Lead
- Derek Forfang, Kidney Patient & Co-Project Lead
- Adeline Dorough, Project Coordinator
- Abhijit Kshirsagar, Nephrologist
- Darren DeWalt, General Internal Medicine
- Yessi Cubillo, Annie Velázquez-Reca, Maria Casas, Ana Maritza Martínez Vizcarrondo, Translators for all Spanish materials
We extend utmost gratitude to our innovative and patient-centered stakeholder panel who offered guidance and feedback at every stage of development – from ideation to data analysis, program development to clinic implementation, and everything in between. Thank you –
- Jim Mold, Family Medicine
- Colleen Chavis, Patient (North Carolina)
- Kevin Fowler, Patient and Family Member (Illinois)
- Shirley Franks, Patient (North Carolina)
- Dave White, Patient (New York)
- Lisa Harvey, Dialysis Organization Clinical Operations Manager
- Bradley Manton, Dialysis Clinic Social Worker
- Lucy Menefee, Dialysis Nurse Practitioner
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