Family Perceptions of Quality of End-of-Life Care for Veterans with Advanced CKD.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Little is known about the quality of end-of-life care for patients with advanced CKD. We describe the relationship between patterns of end-of-life care and dialysis treatment with family-reported quality of end-of-life care in this population.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We designed a retrospective observational study among a national cohort of 9993 veterans with advanced CKD who died in Department of Veterans Affairs facilities between 2009 and 2015. We used logistic regression to evaluate associations between patterns of end-of-life care and receipt of dialysis (no dialysis, acute dialysis, maintenance dialysis) with family-reported quality of end-of-life care.

Results

Overall, 52% of cohort members spent ≥2 weeks in the h

SUBMITTER: Richards CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6730503 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature