Hospitalization and mortality following non-attendance for hemodialysis according to dialysis day of the week: a European cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The extension of the interdialytic interval due to due to dialysis session non-attendance varies according to which session of the week the patient misses. The impact of this on subsequent hospitalization and mortality is unknown.

Methods

The ARO cohort study prospectively collected data from hemodialysis patients across 15 European countries on demography, comorbidity, laboratory, hospitalisation, mortality and individual hemodialysis sessions from 2007 to 2014. Event rates for death and hospitalisation according to dialysis day of the week were calculated for patients who attended the three previous scheduled hemodialysis sessions, who then on the next scheduled dialysis day either attended or did not attend. The hazard ratio for these events following non-atten

SUBMITTER: Fotheringham J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7285433 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature