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Improving Compliance With Treatments For End-Stage Renal Disease Patients On Hemodialysis, Susan Blakeney
Improving Compliance With Treatments For End-Stage Renal Disease Patients On Hemodialysis, Susan Blakeney
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According to Blumrosen et al. (2020), the dialysis population cost expenditure is greater than “seven percent of the Medicare budget at nearly $40 billion a year” even though this population is “less than one percent of the Medicare population” (p. 1436). Additionally, the renal disease population is growing in the United States and internationally which contributes to rising healthcare costs around the globe (Levin, 2018).
The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to identify the factors or reasons hemodialysis patients miss treatments or only stay for partial treatment. Hemodialysis patients are required to have treatments three …