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Home hemodialysis: a comprehensive review of patient-centered and economic considerations

Authors Walker RC, Howard K, Morton RL

Received 28 November 2016

Accepted for publication 24 December 2016

Published 16 February 2017 Volume 2017:9 Pages 149—161

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/CEOR.S69340

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Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 2

Editor who approved publication: Professor Giorgio Colombo



Rachael C Walker,1,2 Kirsten Howard,1 Rachael L Morton3

1School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; 2Hawke’s Bay District Health Board, Hastings, New Zealand; 3NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Abstract: Internationally, the number of patients requiring treatment for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) continues to increase, placing substantial burden on health systems and patients. Home hemodialysis (HD) has fluctuated in its popularity, and the rates of home HD vary considerably between and within countries although there is evidence suggesting a number of clinical, survival, economic, and quality of life (QoL) advantages associated with this treatment. International guidelines encourage shared decision making between patients and clinicians for the type of dialysis, with an emphasis on a treatment that aligned to the patients’ lifestyle. This is a comprehensive literature review of patient-centered and economic impacts of home HD with the studies published between January 2000 and July 2016. Data from the primary studies representing both efficiency and equity of home HD were presented as a narrative synthesis under the following topics: advantages to patients, barriers to patients, economic factors influencing patients, cost-effectiveness of home HD, and inequities in home HD delivery. There were a number of advantages for patients on home HD including improved survival and QoL and flexibility and potential for employment, compared to hospital HD. Similarly, there were several barriers to patients preferring or maintaining home HD, and the strategies to overcome these barriers were frequently reported. Good evidence reported that indigenous, low-income, and other socially disadvantaged individuals had reduced access to home HD compared to other forms of dialysis and that this situation compounds already-poor health outcomes on renal replacement therapy. Government policies that minimize barriers to home HD include reimbursement for dialysis-related out-of-pocket costs and employment-retention interventions for home HD patients and their family members. This review argues that home HD is a cost-effective treatment, and increasing the proportion of patients on this form of dialysis compared to hospital HD will result in a more equitable distribution of good health outcomes for individuals with ESKD.

Keywords: hemodialysis, home haemodialysis, economic considerations, end stage kidney disease, patients, quality of life

Background

Home hemodialysis (HD) was developed in the 1960s in the USA and the UK, and by the early 1970s, 59% of patients on dialysis in the UK and 32% of patients in the USA received dialysis at home, mostly overnight hemodiaysis.1 At this time, hospital dialysis was accessible to only a limited number of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). Home HD offered a solution that allowed more people to dialyze within the limited health system budget.2 Over the last 50 years, the worldwide incidence of ESKD has exploded, and currently, dialysis accounts for a substantial burden on many health systems.3,4 In 2010, the number of patients on dialysis was 2.050 million, with recent modeling predicting that this number will be more than double between 2010 and 2030.5 Despite this exponential growth in the total number of dialysis patients, the proportion of those on home HD since the 1970s has diminished and remains surprisingly low, whereas the numbers of patients preferring hospital and satellite dialysis have substantially increased. The low utilization of home HD is a lost opportunity both to decrease health system costs and to improve quality-adjusted survival.

International rates of home HD vary considerably; countries with a strong home HD “culture” such as New Zealand and Australia sustain 18% and 9% of all dialysis patients on home HD, respectively. This compares to 3–6% in Canada and western Europe with other countries having ≤3%.6 One exception is the UK, where there is a steady growth in the numbers of patients on home HD over the last 10 years,7 since the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence implemented a 15% target for home HD and recommended that the most appropriate modality was one that aligned to the patients’ lifestyle and personal circumstances, alongside their clinical requirements.8

Home HD can be performed independently by the patient or with the assistance of a caregiver, allowing a more flexible and convenient option compared to hospital or satellite (henceforth referred to as facility) HD. Home HD also offers the ability to increase the hours and frequency of treatment. Recent data, including those from randomized controlled trials, suggest that the benefits of more frequent dialysis are similar to kidney transplantation, including greater solute clearance, better volume control potentially reducing left ventricular hypertrophy, improved nutrition, and improved quality of life (QoL).911 Conventional home HD (three times per week, 4–5 h per treatment) is also associated with a number of benefits compared to facility HD including a lower risk of death, improved blood pressure control, higher QoL, and a greater chance of maintaining employment.1215 In contrast, facility dialysis is more restrictive, and hours are generally inflexible with a maximum dialysis duration of 3.5–5 h to accommodate multiple dialysis sessions per machine. Notwithstanding, facility dialysis is substantially more expensive, predominantly due to nursing and technical staff and facility overheads. However, there are reported disadvantages of home HD, including the burden it can impose on caregivers and family members.16,17 Concerns also exist regarding the complexity of home HD18 and patient safety while performing unsupervised HD at home.1820

Home HD offers numerous patient-centered and economic benefits; however, a number of barriers to uptake and maintenance of this treatment also exist; these are addressed in the following sections with a focus on contemporary home HD modalities, including extended hours per week with “short daily” or “nocturnal” home HD.

Methods

This is a comprehensive literature review of patient-centered and economic impacts (including both efficiency and equity considerations) of home HD. The databases MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE (Ovid), National Health Service Economic Evaluation Database, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, CINAHL, Google Scholar, EconLit, and Scopus were searched by using a comprehensive list of Medical Subject Headings terms and text words for HD (haemodialysis), home HD, nocturnal, daily, quotidian, patient experiences, qualitative, cost-effectiveness, cost utility, economic evaluation, life years, quality-adjusted life years, and costs. The search was limited to publications from January 1, 2000, to July 30, 2016, and manuscripts written in English. All the titles and abstracts were manually screened to identify relevant studies. Review studies were screened for references of further primary studies.

The titles and abstracts were screened by RCW, and full papers considered potentially relevant were retrieved. The data were extracted by RCW and RLM. Among papers considering all forms of dialysis, this review included only the papers containing information relevant to home HD. Studies or reports were included if they explored either patient-centered or economic perspectives of patients on home HD. Studies on clinical, survival, or clinician perspectives only were excluded. In this review, the data from the primary studies were presented in a narrative synthesis of findings under the following home HD topics: advantages to patients, barriers to patients, economic factors influencing patients, cost-effectiveness, and inequities in home HD delivery. Table 1 summarizes the barriers to home HD and potential solutions to overcome these barriers.

Table 1 Home HD barriers and potential solutions


Abbreviation: HD, hemodialysis.

Results

The search resulted in 102 articles, and after titles and abstracts were assessed for relevance and the exclusion criteria applied, 61 studies were included in this review. Figure 1 describes the search process. The study types were divided into two broad categories: patient-centered considerations, which included studies related to the advantages of and barriers to home HD, and economic considerations. Table S1 lists the included study titles.

Figure 1 PRISMA flow chart of included studies.


Abbreviation: CKD, chronic kidney disease.

Patient-centered considerations

Advantages for patients

Contemporary home HD has been shown to be associated with substantial clinical benefits, not least survival rates with nocturnal home HD being comparable to rates observed in deceased donor kidney transplant recipients.21 Of equal importance, patient-centered research has identified that QoL factors such as daytime freedom and flexibility, employment, fatigue, caregiver burden, and ability to maintain “normal activities” are of great concern to patients.2228 A recent qualitative systematic review of patient and caregiver’s perspectives found that home HD offered the opportunity to thrive; improved freedom, flexibility, and well-being; and strengthened family relationships.22 Patients valued their ability to work and the sense of self-value that employment provided.23,29

Unemployment in working-age people is known to be associated with high rates of anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.30 Considering that nearly half of the dialysis population is of working age, employment retention is extremely important. The scheduling restrictions of facility dialysis reduce employment opportunities for patients; a study showed that only 43% of the patients maintained the same level of employment after 6 months.29 In contrast, contemporary home HD allows for greater treatment schedule flexibility and therefore more chance of sustained employment.31 Employment, both paid and unpaid, has productivity benefits for society as well as financial stability for individuals and their families. Future economic evaluations of dialysis modalities should include these broader societal benefits that fall beyond direct benefits to health systems.

Home HD also enables patients to maintain social relationships, avoid relocation to a major city for facility dialysis, and maintain cultural involvement, which is particularly important for people living in rural areas and for indigenous populations.23 One study reported that patients on home HD were reluctant to undergo a kidney transplant (considered the gold standard treatment in renal replacement therapy [RRT]) as they believed that there was little additional benefit from their current health status and the potential risks of transplantation were not worth the risk.32

Patient barriers to home HD

Patients new to home HD initially described lacking confidence about their own ability to master home HD and fears about being isolated from medical support; their vulnerability if a medical catastrophe were to occur; and anxiety about specific aspects of home HD, particularly inserting needles.22 Patients also described home HD as being portrayed by educators and clinicians as a complex treatment that was difficult to learn and therefore might be “beyond their capabilities,” resulting in patients doubting their own ability to perform home HD safely.23 Hanson et al’s33 mixed methods study of 20 Australian patients undergoing training for home HD identified that patients experienced unexpected problems throughout the first few weeks of home HD, which caused doubt in their ability to dialyze independently. Similarly, Young et al described the first 3 months of independent home HD as a critical period in determining the success of long-term home HD.34 In a previous study, patients established on home HD acknowledged these early fears; however, they also spoke of their trepidation being alleviated over time as their confidence increased. Patients cited peer support and clinician recommendation of home HD as a superior treatment for them and the doctors’ trust in the patients’ ability to perform this treatment independently as an encouragement of this treatment choice.23

Other barriers to patients in taking up home HD include a lack of knowledge, exposure, visibility, and perceived complexity of this modality.19,23 Lack of effective patient education regarding all the dialysis modalities may influence this, as effective predialysis education has been shown to significantly increase patient choice of a home modality.3537 This has been acknowledged in a previous work based in the USA where up to 88% of patients in 2005 were not aware of home HD as an option.36

Although New Zealand and Australia have relatively high rates of home HD, there is large regional variability in these rates, suggesting further potential to increase home HD overall. Both these countries and others such as Canada have the advantage of supporting patients to dialyze without the requirement of a caregiver or adult to be present during each treatment session. In two previous qualitative studies, patients considered the burden of home HD on their family, but also acknowledged that the inclusion of family members in education and training would help to alleviate some of these concerns.23,33

Home HD was traditionally considered appropriate for “young and well” patients; however, more recently, countries such as the UK have found that patients in their 70s and 80s are successfully performing home HD independently and may benefit from this modality. A multinational retrospective cohort study of 79 patients aged ≥65 years confirmed feasibility of home HD in this patient group. Although this study did not measure patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), it may be assumed that, given the patient-centered benefits from other studies, this group could also benefit from home HD. However, the authors of this study did highlight the potential for long training duration and increased caregiver burden, with >50% of the patient cohort requiring some home assistance.38 More recently, Australasian countries have developed novel ways of increasing their home HD rates. In southern New Zealand, assisted home HD programs have ensured that some elderly are able to remain on home HD with the trained support staff (generally enrolled nurses). Assisted home HD has also shown promising results in a recent pilot study in Canada, and plans are under way to expand the number of participants to a larger cohort and to explore the cost-effectiveness of the program.39 The adoption of community dialysis houses has also been a successful initiative in New Zealand to provide home HD for patients to independently dialyze in a home environment. These patients would not otherwise be able to dialyze in their own home, because of factors such as overcrowding, lack of storage, concerns of patient safety, or reluctance to “medicalize” the home environment.40 This initiative was highly valued by Australian patients already dialyzing in the hospital setting.41 Using this concept in other countries may help to address some of the identified socioeconomic and social isolation barriers to home HD previously reported by patients. For the centers planning to establish home HD programs, initial investment and commitment are required due to the requirements such as extensive nurse education, patient training, and infrastructure support.42

Economic considerations

Hanson et al conducted a qualitative study33 reporting that patients undergoing training for home HD often had to sacrifice their annual leave to accommodate the longer training duration of home HD and as such incurred high out-of-pocket expenses that drained their financial reserves. Despite this, patients weighed these costs against their opportunity for employment and improved lifestyle and livelihood on home HD. Patients felt that the out-of-pocket costs were unfair and that available reimbursements were inadequate. These findings are similar to the economic factors influencing dialysis decision making that was identified in qualitative interviews with predialysis and dialysis patients in New Zealand.43 In this study, patients considered their potential financial losses when choosing a dialysis modality, particularly in relation to maintaining or resuming employment.24 In the present study, both patients and caregivers believed that it was unfair and inequitable that those on home dialysis personally subsidized the cost of their treatment, whereas facility dialysis patients did not incur many additional out-of-pocket costs. It was also observed that socioeconomic disadvantage was a barrier to home dialysis due to multiple factors including unsuitable housing, the lack of home ownership, and not being able to afford the required out-of-pocket costs. In an Australian study of nephrologists, lack of patient reimbursement for out-of-pocket costs was also a barrier to clinicians in promoting home dialysis.44

Financial barriers to home HD are a hurdle that may easily be overcome with a direct policy change.24 A national survey of home HD programs in Canada identified that although the majority of programs partially reimbursed patients’ expenses for minor plumbing and electrical renovations (88%), this was more commonly a one-off cost and less than a third of programs reimbursed for ongoing out-of-pocket utility costs (29%). This survey also identified that over half of the home HD programs required a care partner at home with them when they dialyzed, the majority of whom were unpaid family members or living companions, raising the issue of equity for the patients without a care partner.45

Access to home HD training for patients who are living rural areas is often a barrier, particularly if there is a waiting or extended training duration, meaning that patients need to temporarily relocate during training. This relocation can significantly impact on the patient and their family, including financial burden and cultural and social dislocation from their community.

Cost-effectiveness of home HD

Previous studies, including a recent systematic review, have suggested home HD to be less expensive than facility HD.46 One review of contemporary home HD practice, including nocturnal and daily regimens, reported generally equivalent costs or cost-effectiveness compared to conventional facility HD.47 Both reviews concluded that, in general, home HD was associated with lower costs and better outcomes compared with facility hemodialysis. Even when high-dose HD was available in hospitals, a modeled cost–utility analysis from the UK reported this modality would not be cost-effective, whereas home HD was considered “dominant” with both lower total costs and higher health outcomes than conventional HD.48 Although the studies included in this reviews showed home HD to be cost-effective, only one study included patients’ out-of-pocket expenses, training time, and productivity losses,49 a topic that requires further exploration in order to assess the full impact on the patient and their family and society.

In countries such as the USA, currently, there lacks concordance between the costs of training a patient for home HD and the Medicare reimbursement.50 Internationally, reimbursements for hospital HD are generally higher with the exception of the USA and UK; both of whom provide a flat rate regardless of dialysis location, a factor that may influence the low uptake of home HD. In contrast, the Netherlands has home HD reimbursed at a higher amount if the patient needs a nurse or a nurse assistant, but without an assistant, it is reimbursed lower than hospital HD.51 Reimbursement strategies have proven favorable for increasing the rates of peritoneal dialysis (PD) use52 as have incentive programs,53 and these may have similar impact on the rates of home HD. A recent UK study comparing home dialysis rates of seven hospitals across the West Midlands with the rest of England demonstrated that the use of dialysis modality targets with financial penalties (ie, pay-for-performance) to increase home dialysis was successful, increasing the average uptake by 23% compared to a slight decrease in rates across the rest of England for a group of patients with complex medical problems. The qualitative component of this study also highlighted two neglected areas needed to increase home dialysis uptake in patients with complex medical needs: identifying individualized patient education and the ability to provide an ongoing emotional support.54

More recently, PD-First programs have proved successful in countries such as Hong Kong and Thailand, who have instituted policy on PD through the creation of incentives for provider and patient use, including full reimbursement of PD and restricted reimbursement of HD for patients with a contraindication to PD.55 Although it is a valid and cost-effective approach in the short term, the shorter technique survival of PD over time15,56 may result in these countries facing another challenge in the future years as their dialysis population transitions from PD to HD. The direct transition from PD to home HD may help to address this issue.57,58

Inequities in home HD delivery

The high cost of dialysis has created inequitable access of not only home HD, but also RRT across the world, described recently as a “RRT gap.” Liyanage et al5 estimated that although an estimated 2.6 million people worldwide were treated for ESKD in 2010, up to three times that number may have died from ESKD due to limited access or financial barriers to dialysis. Internationally, it is recognized that a country’s gross domestic product and health care expenditure predict the prevalence of dialysis treatment.59 For low-income countries or those vastly dispersed, home HD may offer numerous additional benefits to improve the accessibility of dialysis. The considerable variability in international practices indicates many potential areas for improvement in the uptake of home HD. The number of patients on home HD in countries such as New Zealand indicates that, with greater exposure and availability, increase in the number of patients preferring home HD is achievable in other countries. From an epidemiological perspective, it is arguable that contemporary home HD, which is at least cost-neutral, if not cost-effective compared to facility dialysis, and has significant health gains and QoL improvements, is worth closer consideration.

However, inequities do not just exist between countries in access to home HD. Within countries with high rates of home HD (New Zealand, Australia, and Canada), minority populations and indigenous groups have significantly lower rates of home HD for reasons that remain poorly understood.60,61 In the USA, Hispanic patients are 37% less likely to receive home HD, and black patients are 17% less likely to receive home HD than white patients.62 Recent data also suggest that countries with lower average incomes and more minority groups have a lower number of facilities offering home HD.50 These low rates may also be compounded by the existing social gradient in predialysis patients’ access to health care, particularly for those without health insurance or home ownership, as this group is known to be significantly less likely to access specialist nephrology and cardiovascular health services.63

In 2016, the National Kidney Foundation’s presidential address acknowledged that there is no method to accurately predict the “right” rates of home HD without understanding the choices of fully informed, nonbiased, and educated patients who are not influenced by the economics of their health system and, therefore, the availability of treatments.64 However, it was known that faced with their own decision of modality, nearly half of the nephrologists would choose home HD if transplantation was not an option,65 and therefore, it can be assumed from this that home HD represents an appropriate “target,” given nephrologists are a well-informed and educated group.

Conclusion

Although a number of barriers to increased uptake of home HD have been defined in this review, none are insurmountable. They require changes in renal unit practice and government policy. The evidence in this review argues that home HD is a patient-centered and cost-effective treatment and that increasing home HD uptake could assist in reducing inequities that currently exist internationally and locally. It was acknowledged, however, that the changes required would need financial investment and a long-term planning approach, as the benefits may not be realized in the short term.

This review emphasized the need for nephrology to better meet patient priorities. The alternative for “one size fits all” approach should be found, and the delivery of home HD training and care should be modified to better support the patient and their family. Promisingly, a recent systematic review and survey of renal registries reported the need for registries to routinely collect PROMs and patient experiences.66 This systematic approach will help clinicians and policy-makers to understand the patient-centered benefits and downsides of all dialysis modalities and ensure that RRT is provided equitably and in a manner that is aligned with patient’s preferences.

Although previous economic studies have predominantly focused on the benefits to the health care system, patient-centered, economic considerations also impact on patient treatment choice and have a wider societal impact that must be explored. Given the clinical, patient, and economic benefits of contemporary home HD, it is difficult to understand why the proportions among high-income countries where home HD training and infrastructure are available remain so low. Government policy needs to address the areas of disadvantage and inequity that face minority and indigenous groups and those with low incomes and explore ways to support reimbursement, incentives, and employment for patients and their family members who choose home HD.

Disclosure

RCW is supported by the University of Sydney APA Scholarship, Baxter Clinical Evidence Council research programme, and New Zealand Lotteries Health Research Grant. The other authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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Table S1 Included studies

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