Comparative effectiveness of home dialysis therapies: a matched cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home dialysis is being increasingly promoted among patients with end-stage renal disease, but the comparative effectiveness of home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis is unknown.

Objective

To determine whether patients receiving home daily hemodialysis have reduced mortality risk compared with matched patients receiving home peritoneal dialysis.

Design

This study is an observational, propensity-matched, new-user cohort study.

Setting

Linked electronic data were from the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) and a large dialysis provider's database.

Patients

The patients were adults receiving in-center hemodialysis in the USA between 2004 and 2011 and registered in the USRDS.

Measurements

Baseline comorbidities, demographics, and out

SUBMITTER: Nesrallah GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4802626 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature