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Perceived barriers to guidelines in peritoneal dialysis.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20959345     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
METHODS: Subscribers to an online nephrology education site (Nephrology Now) were invited to participate in an online survey. Nephrology Now is a non-profit, monthly mailing list that highlights clinically relevant articles in nephrology. Four hundred and seventy-five physicians supplying PD care participated in an online survey assessing their use of EBM and CQI in their PD practice. Ordinal logistic regression was utilized to determine relationships between baseline characteristics and EBM and CQI practices.
RESULTS: The majority of physicians were nephrologists (89.7%), and 50.4% worked in an academic centre. Respondents were from the following geographic regions: 13.5% Canadian, 24% American, 23.8% European, 4.4% Australian, 5.3% South American, 10.7% African and 12.2% Asian. Adherence to PD clinical practice guidelines were generally strong; however, lower adherence was associated with countries with lower healthcare expenditure, not using personal digital assistant (PDA), the longer the physician had been practising and smaller (< 20 patients per centre) PD practice.
CONCLUSIONS: International variation in guideline adherence may be influenced by a country's healthcare expenditure, physician's PDA use and experience, and size of PD practice which may impact future guideline development and implementation.
Authors:
Nathan Allen; Daniel Schwartz; Amy R Sood; David Mendelssohn; Mauro Verrelli; Gemini Tanna; Jeff Schiff; Paul Komenda; Claudio Rigatto; Manish M Sood
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-10-19
Journal Detail:
Title:  Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association     Volume:  26     ISSN:  1460-2385     ISO Abbreviation:  Nephrol. Dial. Transplant.     Publication Date:  2011 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-05-02     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8706402     Medline TA:  Nephrol Dial Transplant     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1683-9     Citation Subset:  IM    
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Correspondence and offprint requests to: Manish M. Sood; E-mail: msood@sbgh.mb.ca.
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