Differentiate Services While Addressing Overall Quality of Care
As the population requiring dialysis continues to climb, additional solutions to meet the demand are needed. Home hemodialysis offers clinicians an opportunity to tailor treatments to the individual needs of each patient, including more frequent and / or longer treatments when medically necessary. More frequent therapy has shown improvements in patients’ clinical and quality of life outcomes,1,2 and home is the most practical location for these treatments.
Easing Patients Into Dialysis
Many patients begin their dialysis experience by crashing onto in-center treatments due to disease progression, infection, or hospital treatments. Transitional Dialysis is a patient centric approach to gently easing patients into dialysis using your existing in-center infrastructure and staff.
Improving Patient and Staff Safety
The NxStage System One and disposable components incorporate a series of innovative safety features that are designed to reduce the risk to patients and your employees.
Uniquely designed bloodlines complete with SecureClip® are designed to reduce the risk of patient blood loss from accidental disconnects.
Volumetric fluid balancing, found in our suite of disposable cartridges eliminate the need for staff to lift, carry, and empty waste bags reducing the risk of injury.
Reducing Costs With Improved Staff Efficiencies
NxStage products offer unique improvements to staff efficiency allowing you to reduce costs in your clinic.
Improve Infection Control in Your Facility
Infections in any care setting can be expensive but studies suggest the consequences from a single needlestick for a dialysis provider may be as high as $4,838 in associated healthcare costs.3
* The overall range of costs for reported exposures was between $71 - $4,838 depending on the severity and infection status of the source patient.3
Reduce Transportation Costs
Patients in a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) who require dialysis therapy are typically transported to and from a dialysis clinic three times a week often at an additional cost. NxStage products and therapies can help you eliminate these costs with an on-site dialysis solution.
Differentiating your nursing home by providing on-site dialysis may also increase hospital referrals and clients.
References
- Kraus M, Finkelstein FO, Daoui R, et al. Short Daily Hemodialysis (SDHD) improves overall Quality of Life (QOL) and physicial intimacy: interim results from the FREEDOM study. Abstract presented at the American Society of Nephrology Conference, 2011.
- Hall YN, Larive B, Painter P, et al. Effects of six versus three times per week hemodialysis on physical performance, health, and functioning: Frequent Hemodialysis Network (FHN) randomized trials. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2012;7(5):782-794.
- O'Malley EM, Scott RD, Gayle J et al. Costs of management of occupational exposures to blood and body fluids. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007:28:774-782.
