Key result
Family members exert significant influence on older patients' kidney failure treatment decisions, often outside formal shared decision-making support, underscoring the need for family-centered care.
Why the study?
Family members are important in treatment decisions between dialysis and conservative kidney management for frail older patients with CKD, but data exploring their perspectives are limited.
Design
Qualitative inductive thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews
Authors
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Underscores family roles in frail CKD decisions; leaves open how best to integrate into person-centered pathways.
Kimmitt et al. (2025) studied Advanced chronic kidney disease (n=22). Kidney failure treatment decision-making was evaluated on Themes regarding understanding and approach to decision-making for kidney failure treatments. Family members exert significant influence on older patients' kidney failure treatment decisions, often outside formal shared decision-making support, underscoring the need for family-centered care.
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