Outcome Analysis of Transition From Peritoneal Dialysis to Hemodialysis: A Population-Based Study.

ABSTRACT: If a technical failure occurs during peritoneal dialysis (PD), the patients undergoing PD may be transitioned to hemodialysis (HD). However, the clinical outcomes of patients who have undergone such a transition are under studied. This study assessed whether patients undergoing HD who have transitioned from PD have the same clinical outcomes as HD-only patients. This research was a retrospective cohort study by searching a National Health Insurance research database for data on patients in Taiwan who had undergone HD between January 2006 and December 2013. The patients were divided into two groups, namely a case group in which the patients were transitioned from PD to HD and a HD-only control group, through propensity score matching at a ratio of 1:4 (n = 1,100 vs. 4,400, respective

SUBMITTER: Tsai MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9202657 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature