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The Cost-Effectiveness of Initiating Patients on Home Dialysis Compared with In-Centre Haemodialysis (2025)
Journal Article
Hill, H., Fotheringham, J., Potts, J., Solis-Trapala, I., Lambie, M., Damery, S., Allen, K., Wailoo, A., Williams, I., & Davies, S. (2025). The Cost-Effectiveness of Initiating Patients on Home Dialysis Compared with In-Centre Haemodialysis. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-025-00976-7

Objectives
Kidney failure can be treated at home with peritoneal dialysis or home haemodialysis. The combination of reduced staffing, transport and overhead costs and improved quality of life through treatment at home could make initiating dialysis... Read More about The Cost-Effectiveness of Initiating Patients on Home Dialysis Compared with In-Centre Haemodialysis.

Poor glycemic control and its predictors among people living with diabetes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Azagew, A. W., Mekonnen, C. K., Lambie, M., Shepherd, T., & Babatunde, O. O. (in press). Poor glycemic control and its predictors among people living with diabetes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health, 25(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21828-y

Introduction: Variability in blood glucose remains a challenge in diabetic management. Therefore, this review aimed to estimate the overall poor glycemic control and identify its predictors among people living with diabetes in low- and middle-income... Read More about Poor glycemic control and its predictors among people living with diabetes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

The clinical implications and cost-effectiveness of the provision of medical in addition to surgical catheter insertion for peritoneal dialysis in people with kidney failure (2025)
Journal Article
Hill, H., Rawdin, A., Wailoo, A., Briggs, V., Lambie, M., McCullough, K., Dunn, L., Davies, S., Wilkie, M., & Fotheringham, J. (in press). The clinical implications and cost-effectiveness of the provision of medical in addition to surgical catheter insertion for peritoneal dialysis in people with kidney failure. Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, https://doi.org/10.1177/08968608251314976

Background High-quality and timely peritoneal access is essential for effective peritoneal dialysis (PD). Existing comparisons of medical compared to surgical catheter insertion have focused on the incidence of catheter events, but the cost-effective... Read More about The clinical implications and cost-effectiveness of the provision of medical in addition to surgical catheter insertion for peritoneal dialysis in people with kidney failure.

How does organisational culture facilitate uptake of home dialysis? An ethnographic study of kidney centres in England (2024)
Journal Article
Allen, K., Shaw, K. L., Spry, J. L., Dikomitis, L., Coyle, D., Damery, S., Fotheringham, J., Lambie, M., Williams, I. P., & Davies, S. (2024). How does organisational culture facilitate uptake of home dialysis? An ethnographic study of kidney centres in England. BMJ Open, 14(12), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085754

Objective: The proportion of people having home dialysis for kidney disease varies considerably by treating centre, socioeconomic deprivation levels in the area and to some extent ethnicity. This study aimed to gain in-depth insights into cultural an... Read More about How does organisational culture facilitate uptake of home dialysis? An ethnographic study of kidney centres in England.

Establishing a peritoneal dialysis technique survival core outcome measure: A standardised outcomes in nephrology-peritoneal dialysis consensus workshop report (2024)
Journal Article
Elphick, E. H., Manera, K. E., Viecelli, A. K., Craig, J. C., Cho, Y., Ju, A., Shen, J. I., Wilkie, M., Anumudu, S., Boudville, N., Chow, J. S., Davies, S. J., Gooden, P., Harris, T., Jain, A. K., Liew, A., Matus-Gonzalez, A., Amir, N., Nadeau-Fredette, A.-C., Nguyen, T., …Lambie, M. (in press). Establishing a peritoneal dialysis technique survival core outcome measure: A standardised outcomes in nephrology-peritoneal dialysis consensus workshop report. Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, https://doi.org/10.1177/08968608241287684

Background Technique survival, also reported with negative connotations as technique failure or transfer from peritoneal dialysis to haemodialysis, has been identified by patients, caregivers and health professionals as a critically important outcome... Read More about Establishing a peritoneal dialysis technique survival core outcome measure: A standardised outcomes in nephrology-peritoneal dialysis consensus workshop report.

Prevalence and Outcomes of Chronic Kidney Disease Associated Pruritus: International Results from PDOPPS. (2024)
Journal Article
Tennankore, K. K., McCullough, K. P., Bieber, B., Cho, Y., Johnson, D. W., Kanjanabuch, T., Kawanishi, H., Kim, Y.-L., Lambie, M., Rigatto, C., Shen, J., Schreiber, M., Perl, J., & Pisoni, R. L. (in press). Prevalence and Outcomes of Chronic Kidney Disease Associated Pruritus: International Results from PDOPPS. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.0000000000000537

Pruritus is common in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Less is known about the prevalence and outcomes of pruritus among patients receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD). Herein, we describe the prevalence of pruritus and its associations with patient-reported... Read More about Prevalence and Outcomes of Chronic Kidney Disease Associated Pruritus: International Results from PDOPPS..

O24 ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY IN PREGNANCY AND CARDIO-RENAL OUTCOMES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Jeyaraman, D., Peiris, T. D. P., Alahmdi, H., Fish, R., Lambie, M., & Wu, P. (2024, September). O24 ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY IN PREGNANCY AND CARDIO-RENAL OUTCOMES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS. Presented at 30th Congress of the International Society of Hypertension, Cartegena de Indias, Colombia

Background and Objective: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common problem in pregnancy but adverse cardio-renal outcomes following AKI in pregnancy has not been systematically evaluated. We aimed to quantify the risk of adverse cardio-renal outcomes of... Read More about O24 ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY IN PREGNANCY AND CARDIO-RENAL OUTCOMES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS.

Rationale and design of ELIXIR, a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate efficacy and safety of XyloCore, a glucose-sparing solution for peritoneal dialysis. (2024)
Journal Article
Bonomini, M., Davies, S., Kleophas, W., Lambie, M., Reboldi, G., Liberato, L. D., Divino-Filho, J. C., Heimburger, O., Ortiz, A., Povlsen, J., Iacobelli, M., Prosdocimi, T., & Arduini, A. (2024). Rationale and design of ELIXIR, a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate efficacy and safety of XyloCore, a glucose-sparing solution for peritoneal dialysis. Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, https://doi.org/10.1177/08968608241274106

Peritoneal dialysis adoption and technique survival is affected by limitations related to peritoneal membrane longevity and metabolic alterations. Indeed, almost all peritoneal dialysis fluids exploit glucose as an osmotic agent that rapidly diffuses... Read More about Rationale and design of ELIXIR, a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate efficacy and safety of XyloCore, a glucose-sparing solution for peritoneal dialysis..

P082 Nephrolithiasis associated with uricosuric therapies for the treatment of gout: a systematic review (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Dahanayake, C., Bajpai, R., Jordan, K. M., Lambie, M., & Roddy, E. (2024, April). P082 Nephrolithiasis associated with uricosuric therapies for the treatment of gout: a systematic review. Poster presented at British Society for Rheumatology Annual Conference 2024

Background/Aims
Uric acid nephrolithiasis is a recognised side-effect of uricosuric therapies and a contraindication to their use. The objective of this systematic review was to assess the incidence and risk of nephrolithiasis in people with gout re... Read More about P082 Nephrolithiasis associated with uricosuric therapies for the treatment of gout: a systematic review.

International variations in serum PTH and calcium levels and their mortality associations in peritoneal dialysis patients: Results from PDOPPS (2024)
Journal Article
Nitta, K., Bieber, B., Karaboyas, A., Johnson, D. W., Kanjanabuch, T., Kim, Y.-L., Lambie, M., Hartman, J., Shen, J. I., Naljayan, M., Pecoits-Filho, R., Robinson, B. M., Pisoni, R. L., Perl, J., & Kawanishi, H. (2024). International variations in serum PTH and calcium levels and their mortality associations in peritoneal dialysis patients: Results from PDOPPS. Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/08968608241235516

Background:
Mineral bone disorder (MBD) in chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with high symptom burden, fractures, vascular calcification, cardiovascular disease and increased morbidity and mortality. CKD-MBD studies have been limited in per... Read More about International variations in serum PTH and calcium levels and their mortality associations in peritoneal dialysis patients: Results from PDOPPS.

Adverse pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women with chronic kidney disease: A systematic review and meta‐analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Jeyaraman, D., Walters, B., Bramham, K., Fish, R., Lambie, M., & Wu, P. (2024). Adverse pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women with chronic kidney disease: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.17807

Background
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, but the risk at different stages of CKD (defined by estimated glomerular filtration rate, eGFR) compared with women without CKD has not been... Read More about Adverse pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women with chronic kidney disease: A systematic review and meta‐analysis.

Centre variation in home dialysis uptake: A survey of kidney centre practice in relation to home dialysis organisation and delivery in England (2024)
Journal Article
Damery, S., Lambie, M., Williams, I., Coyle, D., Fotheringham, J., Solis-Trapala, I., Allen, K., Potts, J., Dikomitis, L., & Davies, S. J. (2024). Centre variation in home dialysis uptake: A survey of kidney centre practice in relation to home dialysis organisation and delivery in England. Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, https://doi.org/10.1177/08968608241232200

Background:
Disparities in home dialysis uptake across England suggest inequity and unexplained variation in access. We surveyed staff at all English kidney centres to identify patterns in service organisation/delivery and explore correlations with... Read More about Centre variation in home dialysis uptake: A survey of kidney centre practice in relation to home dialysis organisation and delivery in England.

Gastric Acid Suppression Therapy and its Association with Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis in the Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS) (2023)
Journal Article
Goldman, S., Zhao, J., Bieber, B., Pisoni, R. L., Horowitz, L., Nessim, S. J., Piraino, B., Lambie, M., Kanjanabuch, T., Ito, Y., Boudville, N., Teitelbaum, I., Schreiber, M., & Perl, J. (2023). Gastric Acid Suppression Therapy and its Association with Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis in the Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS). Kidney360, 5(3), 370-379. https://doi.org/10.34067/kid.0000000000000325

Background
Peritonitis is a major peritoneal dialysis–related complication. We determined whether gastric acid suppression (GAS) (proton pump inhibitor [PPI] or histamine-2 receptor antagonists [H2RAs]) use was associated with all-cause and organis... Read More about Gastric Acid Suppression Therapy and its Association with Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis in the Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS).

Robust Joint Models of Albumin and All-Cause Mortality in Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: A Dynamic Predictions Perspective Adjusting for Competing Risks (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Damgov, I., Kieser, M., Rutherford, P., Lambie, M., Davies, S. J., Wong, M. G., Pollock, C. A., Johnson, D. W., & Schmitt, C. P. (2023, November). Robust Joint Models of Albumin and All-Cause Mortality in Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: A Dynamic Predictions Perspective Adjusting for Competing Risks. Poster presented at ASN Kidney Week, Philadelphia, PA, USA

International Variations in Serum PTH and Calcium Levels and Their Mortality Associations in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: Results from PDOPPS: TH-PO161 (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nitta, K., Bieber, B., Karaboyas, A., Johnson, D. W., Kanjanabuch, T., Kim, Y.-L., Lambie, M., Shen, J. I., Naljayan, M. V., Pecoits-Filho, R., Robinson, B. M., Pisoni, R. L., Perl, J., & Kawanishi, H. (2023, November). International Variations in Serum PTH and Calcium Levels and Their Mortality Associations in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: Results from PDOPPS: TH-PO161. Poster presented at Kidney Week, Philadelphia, PA

CKD-Associated Pruritus: Prevalence and Association with Quality of Life for Peritoneal Dialysis Patients, International Results from PDOPPS (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tennankore, K. K., Perl, J., Pisoni, R. L., Johnson, D. W., Kanjanabuch, T., Kawanishi, H., Kim, Y.-L., Lambie, M., Shen, J. I., Cho, Y. J., Rigatto, C., & McCullough, K. (2023, November). CKD-Associated Pruritus: Prevalence and Association with Quality of Life for Peritoneal Dialysis Patients, International Results from PDOPPS. Presented at Kidney Week, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

International Comparison of Home Dialysis Uptake: A Multi-Registry Analysis from the INTEGRATED Research Group (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boyer, A., Ethier, I., Johnson, D. W., Weinhandl, E. D., Tennankore, K. K., Lobbedez, T., Béchade, C., Elftouh, N., Lambie, M., & Nadeau-Fredette, A.-C. (2023, November). International Comparison of Home Dialysis Uptake: A Multi-Registry Analysis from the INTEGRATED Research Group. Poster presented at ASN Kidney Week, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Estimating the association between systemic Interleukin-6 and mortality in the dialysis population. Re-analysis of the global fluid study, systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Istanbuly, O., Belcher, J., Tabinor, M., Solis-Trapala, I., Lambie, M., & Davies, S. J. (in press). Estimating the association between systemic Interleukin-6 and mortality in the dialysis population. Re-analysis of the global fluid study, systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Nephrology, 24(1), Article 312. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-023-03370-4

Background: Systemic inflammation, measured as circulating Interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels, is associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in chronic kidney disease. However, this has not been convincingly demonstrated in a systematic review o... Read More about Estimating the association between systemic Interleukin-6 and mortality in the dialysis population. Re-analysis of the global fluid study, systematic review and meta-analysis.

An update on absolute and relative indications for dialysis treatment modalities (2023)
Journal Article
Lambie, M., & Davies, S. (2023). An update on absolute and relative indications for dialysis treatment modalities. Clinical Kidney Journal, 16(Supplement_1), i39-i47. https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfad062

Background Choosing a dialysis modality is an important decision for people to make as their kidney failure progresses. In doing so, their options should be informed by any absolute or relative indications that may favour one modality over another. M... Read More about An update on absolute and relative indications for dialysis treatment modalities.