Effect of profit status in facilities on the mortality of patients on long-term haemodialysis: a nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Over the past two decades, debates on whether the profit status of dialysis facilities influences patient prognosis have been popular in the USA. Taiwan is one of the regions with the highest rate per capita of kidney replacement therapy worldwide, but no similar research has been conducted to date. This is the first study to address this issue.

Design

This was a nationwide retrospective cohort study based on the Taiwan Renal Registry Data System.

Setting

Patients were categorised into two groups based on the profit status (for-profit, not-for-profit (NFP)) of dialysis facilities, with 31 350 patients in each group. The patients were followed up from 2005 to 2012.

Participants

Patients with uraemia who underwent long-term haemodialysis in private dia

SUBMITTER: Liu SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8413873 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature