Implication of Trends in Timing of Dialysis Initiation for Incidence of End-stage Kidney Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In the last 2 decades, there have been notable changes in the level of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) at which patients initiate long-term dialysis in the US and around the world. How changes over time in the likelihood of dialysis initiation at any given eGFR level in at-risk patients are associated with the population burden of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) has not been not well defined.

Objective

To examine temporal trends in long-term dialysis initiation by level of eGFR and to quantify how these patterns are associated with the number of patients with ESKD.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective cohort study analyzing data obtained from a large, integrated health care delivery system in Northern California from 2001 to 2018 in s

SUBMITTER: Hsu CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7551228 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature