Table 2.
Components of an Outpatient Kidney Palliative Care Visit
| Building rapport |
| Assessing patients understanding of his or her disease |
| Determining coping mechanisms, including support networks |
| Attaining how the patient would best like to receive information |
| Assessing how the patient defines their quality of life |
| Physical and emotional symptom burden |
| Spiritual well being |
| Caregiver support |
| Assessing functional status |
| Discussions of prognosis if appropriate |
| Dialysis decision making if appropriate |
| Goals of renal replacement |
| Understanding of conservative management of kidney disease |
| Understanding of options of dialysis withdrawala |
| Advance care planning if appropriate |
a
If appropriate.
Source: Modified from Yoong et al.19