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KitNewCare website is now live
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the KitNewCare website!
This platform serves as our project's primary communication and dissemination hub, dedicated to revolutionising sustainable kidney care.
The website provides a comprehensive overview of the KitNewCare project, including detailed information about our objectives, the innovative technologies we are developing, and the clinical pilot sites across Europe. Visitors can explore various sections to learn more about our mission to integrate sustainability into kidney care and improve patient outcomes while reducing the environmental impact.
Key features of the website include:
- Clinical sites: discover the strategic locations where KitNewCare’s solutions will be applied, chosen for their expertise in kidney care and sustainable healthcare.
- Prevention: access valuable information on preventing chronic kidney disease, including useful links to kidney institutions and a rich bibliography.
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Together, we can make a lasting impact on healthcare and the environment.
July 1, 2024
Scientific publications
Beyond carbon: the parts of sustainable kidney care that are still missing
Most of what has been published on sustainable kidney care measures one thing: environmental impact, usually carbon. KitNewCare was designed on the premise that this is not enough, and a group of the project's publications is now mapping what the field still does not know.
Scientific publications
An open library of kidney care life cycle data, free for anyone to reuse
Anyone who has attempted a life cycle assessment in healthcare knows where the work actually goes. Not in the modelling, but in the weeks beforehand: dismantling every consumable in a treatment pathway, weighing each component, identifying each polymer, and reconstructing the clinical process in enough detail that the inventory means something. It is unglamorous, it is slow, and it is repeated from scratch by nearly every team that tries.
Scientific publications
Modality matters less than you think. What happens to the plastic matters more.
If a dialysis service wanted to reduce its environmental impact by choosing between haemodialysis and online haemodiafiltration, a KitNewCare study in Modena has an unhelpful answer: it barely matters. The more useful finding sits elsewhere in the same numbers.
