Study finds home dialysis patients fare better than satellite patients
A recent study has found that home dialysis patients saw a reduction in mortality rates compared to patients in satellite units, which are facility or hospital-based haemodialysis units. Director of Nephrology Professor Peter Kerr who is also a professor at Monash University says in general, patients who do home dialysis are younger and have fewer medical complications. But even among them, the mortality rate for matched satellite patients was still about 8% while the home dialysis patients were at 3.6%.