Study on improving CKD patients' diet therapy compliance on the basis of PDCA
Xiaodong Wang, WU Mei-feng, Yanjuan He, Ying Xu · International journal of nursing · 2016
Objective For problems existed during diet treatment for CKD patients, targeted optimization and modification is made on the basis of PDCA and then they are put into practice to improve CKD patients' diet therapy compliance. Methods PDCA steps were made full use, and for prominent problems existed during diet treatment management for CKD patients such as principle confusion, lack of executive standard, lack of specific plan in implementation, and tool missing, targeted measures were made, including building Wechat remote operation platform, working out individualized diet for patients by employing software, providing practical tools for salt and oil controlling, carrying out diet treatment training for department staff, mastering situation of patients' operability and compliance for diet therapy and the importance for diet treatment, and their knowledge for principle of diet treatment. Results CKD patients' knowledge for importance, content and compliance of nephropathy diet had been enhanced after intervention.And the difference had statistical significance when comparing with pre intervention(P<0.05). Conclusions PDCA is executed for problems existed during CKD patients' diet treatment, which inspires all nurses to seek more direct and specific nursing interventions, and contributes to the solution of prominent problems proposed in nephropathy diet propaganda and education. Key words: Diet; Nursing; Chronic kidney disease; PDCA