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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Kidney Dis. 2021 Oct 19;79(5):657–666.e1. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2021.08.021

Figure 1: Four challenges to decision-making about treatment of advanced CKD experienced by patients and their clinicians.

Figure 1:

Theme 1: Competing priorities – When to triage CKD and dialysis planning above other priorities; Theme 2: Focusing on present or future – How to face dialysis as an inevitability; Theme 3: Standardized versus individualized approach to CKD – What information is overriding in guiding decision-making; Theme 4: Power dynamics – How power differences affect the patient-clinician therapeutic relationship.