Patient Care Technician Staffing and Outcomes Among US Patients Receiving In-Center Hemodialysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Dialysis patient care technicians (PCTs) play a critical role in US in-center hemodialysis (HD) care, but little is known about the association of PCT staffing with patient outcomes at US HD facilities.

Objective

To estimate the associations of in-center HD patient outcomes with facility-level PCT staffing.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a retrospective cohort study, with data analysis performed from March 2023 to January 2024. Data on US patients with end-stage kidney disease and their treatment facilities were obtained from the US Renal Data System. Participants included patients (aged 18-100 years) initiating in-center HD between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2018, who continued receiving in-center HD for 90 days or more and had data on P

SUBMITTER: Plantinga LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10924248 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature