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NDT Plus 2009 2(2):119-126; doi:10.1093/ndtplus/sfn215
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© The Author [2009]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

What's on the web for nephrology?*

Praveen Ande, Diana Chiu, Scott Rayner, Robert A. Coward and Alexander Woywodt

Renal Unit, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, Lancashire, UK

Correspondence: Correspondence and offprint requests to: Alexander Woywodt, Renal Unit, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane, Preston, PR2 9HT, UK. Tel: +01772714467; Fax: +01772523516; E-mail: alex.woywodt@LTHTR.NHS.UK

Key Words: communication • Internet • patient information

Received for publication December 22, 2008. Accepted for publication December 29, 2008.

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   Introduction
 
The use of the World Wide Web has increased dramatically during the last two decades. This trend within the general population did not spare patients and relatives: a recent report described an increase in the use of the Internet by patients to retrieve health-related information from 16% in 2000 to 55% in 2006 among patients who attended an ear/nose/throat clinic [1]. Similar data in renal patients are lacking but it is tempting to speculate that Internet use may be even more frequent, not least due to the complexity of diseases and treatments in our field. The use of the Internet by health-care providers has increased dramatically as well and numerous websites compete for our attention. Here, we try to review what the Internet has on offer, both for renal patients and relatives and for their health-care providers. We focus on resources in English although we appreciate that good . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Online resources for patients with renal disease
 
American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) (http://www.aakp.org)
Home dialysis (http://www.homedialysis.org)
National Kidney Federation UK (http://www.kidney.org.uk)
National Kidney Foundation (USA) (www.kidney.org)
KidneypatientguideTM (www.kidneypatientguide.uk)
KidneyschoolTM (www.kidneyschool.org)
Renal Support Network (www.rsnhope.org)

   Websites hosted by individual patients, blogs and social networking: Facebook in nephrology
 

   Online resources for nephrologists
 
Haemodialysis clinical nephrology (HDCN) (http://www.HDCN.com)
NDT educational (http://www.ndt-educational.org)
Nephrology Now (http://www.nephrologynow.com/)
Nephrology Rounds (http://www.NephrologyRounds.org)
U Kidney—Internet school of nephrology (http://www.ukidney.com)
UptodateTM (http://www.uptodate.com)

   Conclusion
 

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