Dialysis specialist care and patient survival in hemodialysis facilities: a Korean nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is important for the dialysis specialist to provide essential and safe care to hemodialysis (HD) patients. However, little is known about the actual effect of dialysis specialist care on the survival of HD patients. We therefore investigated the influence of dialysis specialist care on patient mortality in a nationwide Korean dialysis cohort.

Methods

We used an HD quality assessment and National Health Insurance Service claims data from October to December 2015. A total of 34,408 patients were divided into two groups according to the proportion of dialysis specialists in their HD unit, as follows: 0%, no dialysis specialist care group, and ≥50%, dialysis specialist care group. We analyzed the mortality risk of these groups using the Cox proportional hazards mod

SUBMITTER: Park HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10265207 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature