End-of-Life Care Among Patients With Kidney Failure on Maintenance Dialysis: A Retrospective Population-Based Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nephrologists routinely provide end-of-life care for patients with kidney failure (KF) on maintenance dialysis. Involvement of primary care and palliative care physicians may enhance this experience.

Objective

The objective was to describe outpatient care patterns in the last year of life and the end-of-life acute care utilization for patients with KF on maintenance dialysis.

Design

Retrospective cohort study using population-level health administrative data.

Setting & participants

Outpatient and inpatient care during the last year of life among patients who died between 2017 and 2019, receiving maintenance dialysis in Ontario, Canada.

Measurements

The primary exposure is patterns of physician specialties providing outpatient care in the last

SUBMITTER: Hafid S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11418337 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature