Travel Distance to Dialysis and Mortality Among Hemodialysis Patients in a Geographically Small Country.

ABSTRACT: Evidence on the association between dialysis facility accessibility and mortality in small countries is limited. This study evaluated the association between travel distance and one- and two-year mortality among Israeli end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. Data were obtained from the National Renal Replacement Therapy Registry, encompassing all Israeli ESRD patients aged ≥ 45 years who initiated hemodialysis in 2010-2021. Sociodemographic (age, sex, population group), treatment-related (hospital/community treatment, primary renal disease, incident-year cohort), and geographic (residency socioeconomic and peripherality indices) data were collected. Travel distances from the most recent address to the initial treating facility were categorized into three groups based on the 50th and 90th

SUBMITTER: Namimi-Halevi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12586237 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature