Employment among Patients Starting Dialysis in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Patients with ESRD face significant challenges to remaining employed. It is unknown when in the course of kidney disease patients stop working.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We examined employment trends over time among patients ages 18-54 years old who initiated dialysis in the United States between 1996 and 2013 from a national ESRD registry. We compared unadjusted trends in employment at the start of dialysis and 6 months before ESRD and used linear probability models to estimate changes in employment over time after adjusting for patient characteristics and local unemployment rates in the general population. We also examined employment among selected vulnerable patient populations and changes in employment in the 6 months precedi

SUBMITTER: Erickson KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5967428 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature