Abstract
The Advancing American Kidney Health (AAKH) Initiative aims to promote high-value patient-centered care by improving access to and quality of treatment options for kidney failure. The 3 explicit goals of the initiative are to reduce the incidence of kidney failure, increase the number of available kidneys for transplantation, and increase transplantation and home dialysis. To ensure a patient-centered movement toward home dialysis modalities, actionable principles of palliative care, including systematic communication and customized treatment plans, should be incorporated into this policy. In this perspective, we describe 2 opportunities to strengthen the patience-centeredness of the AAKH Initiative through palliative care: (1) serious illness conversations should be required for all dialysis initiations in the End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices model, and (2) conservative kidney management should be counted as a home modality alongside peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis. A serious illness conversation can help clinicians discern whether a patient’s goals and values are best respected by a home dialysis modality or whether a nondialytic strategy such as conservative kidney management should be considered. An intensive and careful patient- and family-centered selection process will be necessary to ensure that no patient is pressured to forego conventional dialysis.
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