A website named www.homedialysis.org has some good info for everyone involved with or concerned about dialysis. One of the bits of information offered is a resource named PATH-D. PATH-D was developed to help patients and caregivers codify who is responsible for what regarding the care and feeding, so to speak, of all the effort that goes into adding up to successful dialysis. The site states “…PATH-D acts as a behavioral contract between the patient and the partner that explicitly defines the tasks at hand and determines what tasks each person is willing to take on.” If you read down the list, you can get a feeling of all that is involved in successful PD if nothing else. A PDF of PATH-D is available below:
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