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Patient Decision Aid Summary

Title A Dialysis and Conservative Care Decision Aid: Living with Kidney Disease.
To access it View the patient decision aid on the developer website
Audience People with chronic and established kidney disease, and who are making decisions between conservative care or dialysis pathways. Kidney health professionals to support people and their families making this decision.
Options included Dialysis.
Conservative care.
Year of last update or review 2020
Format Web, paper, PDF
Developer Anna Winterbottom
Where was it developed? anna@winterbottom.co.uk
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust/University of Leeds
United Kingdom
Health condition Chronic Kidney Disease
Language English
Based on 2025 IPDAS criteria (International Patient Decision Aid Standards) this patient decision aid (and/or supporting materials) meets:
7 out of 7 IPDAS Qualifying criteria to be defined as a patient decision aid
5 out of 7 IPDAS Essential criteria to lower the risk of making a biased decision
Not applicable: Other IPDAS Essential criteria for patient decision aids about screening or testing
View IPDAS criteria details.

Last modified: 2025-07-29.