Approximating the Proportion of Individuals With Kidney Failure Who Die Without Kidney Replacement Therapy in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quantifying the number and proportion of people with kidney failure (KF) who receive conservative kidney management is vital for health care system benchmarking and planning. It is not easy to ascertain this value precisely at the population level, but we can approximate it using information from different data sources to estimate the proportion of patients with advanced kidney disease who die without receiving dialysis or a transplant and should receive conservative kidney management.

Objective

To approximate the proportion of people with KF in Ontario, Canada, who die without receiving kidney replacement therapy.

Design

A review of unpublished provincial renal agency reports of 3 retrospective population-based cohorts combined with clinical interpretation

SUBMITTER: Cowan AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11909665 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature