Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 May 22;18:227. doi: 10.1186/s13063-017-1965-9

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s). 2017

Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

PMC Copyright notice

Fig. 1 — Process of who needs to do what differently, inter-relationships and outcomes. In the MyTEMP trial, the leadership at each dialysis centre should change local policy to ensure alignment with individualized dialysis temperatures (IDTs). Physicians should order IDTs for current patients at one time, and as new patients receive prescriptions for dialysate temperature. Nurses are likely to follow physician orders to set IDTs. Nurses will be aware of patient feedback and other clinical symptoms related to IDTs. If changes need to be made to dialysate temperature prescriptions, nurses will likely inform the physician. Finally, patients may experience improved clinical outcomes as a result of IDTs