Dialysis Preparedness and Access to the Transplant Waitlist: Evidence From a National United States Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Individuals who initiate dialysis for kidney failure do so with different levels of preparedness. Whether this has downstream effects for access to kidney transplant is unknown.

Methods

We identified adults (aged ≥ 18 years) initiating dialysis between 2015 and 2019 from the United States Renal Data System and followed-up with them until waitlisting, death, or end of follow-up (December 31, 2021), whichever occurred first. We grouped dialysis initiation context as follows: group 1 initiated peritoneal dialysis (PD) or hemodialysis (HD) with mature arteriovenous access (AVA), group 2 initiated HD with a catheter and maturing AVA, group 3 initiated HD with a catheter and without a maturing AVA, and group 4 lacked predialysis nephrology care. Fine-Gray subdistribut

SUBMITTER: Raffray M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12231010 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature