Many decisions around vascular access for haemodialysis warrant a collaborative treatment decisionmaking process, involving both clinician and patient. Yet, patients’ experiences in this regard have been suboptimal. Although clinical practice guidelines could facilitate collaborative decision making, they often focus on the clinicians’ side of the process, while failing to address the patients’ perspective.
The objective of this study was to explore and compare kidney patients’ and clinicians’ views on what vascular access related decisions deserved priority for developing guidelines that will contribute to optimizing collaborative decision making.