Attending First regional transplant hui in Aotearoa New Zealand - time to turn around inequities!

It's LIVE! 😃The Patient & Researcher Connection Site just launched today! Check it out and start connecting! scpor.ca/patientresearc…

Are kidneys targeted by the novel coronavirus? #Kidney involvement seems to be frequent in patients who have tested positive for #COVID19 and acute kidney injury might be a predictor of mortality in infected patients. Read the new ERA-EDTA Press Release bit.ly/38FQkC7

#Coronavirus update. There is no need for alarm but people with #kidneydisease should be aware that, just like with the flu, they are at a higher risk of severe symptoms and complications from coronavirus. Visit: kidney.org.au/about-us/news/… Visit: health.gov.au/health-topics/…

#OpenAccess Community house hemodialysis enables patients to perform HD independent of nursing/medical supervision in a shared house. This qualitative study describes perspectives and experiences of patients in New Zealand buff.ly/2JTev6r Rachael Walker Suetonia Palmer

How privileged are we that we can spend time discussing court action against lockdown instead of watching our family & neighbours be buried in mass graves and dumped in the back of refrigerator trucks by forklifts. Honestly I feel like we are on some alternate universe at times.

Ensuring confidence in staff and patient safety is likely to help. See latest ISN resource developed by dialysis nurses theisn.org/covid19/infogr… Enna Mwangi Elliot Koranteng Tannor Rachael Walker

“The purpose of peer review is to help to ensure that published research is ethically and methodologically robust. But who gets to decide what is ethically and methodologically robust — and, therefore, what is published?” e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

Housing interventions have potential to improve equity for those on dialysis and overcome many barriers to home dialysis.

Are you a dietitian, kidney nurse or nephrologist with an interest in PD research? Expressions of interest are open for the AKTN PD Working Group. Visit the AKTN Website for details. ⁦Yeoungjee Cho⁩ ⁦Rachael Walker⁩ ⁦David W Johnson⁩ aktn.org.au/committees/wgs/