Length of hospital stay is associated with a decline in activities of daily living in hemodialysis patients: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The impact of length of hospital stay on activities of daily living (ADLs) has not specifically been investigated among dialysis patients. Therefore, we attempt to verify the association between the length of hospital stay and the decline in ADLs among hemodialysis patients.

Methods

This prospective cohort study used data from the Japanese Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (J-DOPPS). We included 2442 hemodialysis patients aged ≥40 years from the J-DOPPS phase V (2012-2015) and subsequently excluded those who had already lost basic activities of daily living (BADLs) as demonstrated by dependency in at least three of the five BADLs at baseline and for whom changes in ADLs had been evaluated for less than 90 days. The main exposure was the cumulative leng

SUBMITTER: Kamitani T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6950813 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature