Patient Preferences for Longer or More Frequent In-Center Hemodialysis Regimens: A Multicenter Discrete Choice Study.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

Longer and more frequent hemodialysis sessions are associated with both benefits and harms. However, their relative importance to patients and how they influence acceptability for patients have not been quantified.

Study design

Discrete-choice experiment in which a scenario followed by 12 treatment choice sets were presented to patients in conjunction with varying information about the clinical impact of the treatments offered.

Setting & participants

Patients with kidney failure treated with maintenance dialysis for≥1 year in 5 UK kidney centers.

Predictors

Length and frequency of hemodialysis sessions and their prior reported associations with survival, quality of life, need for fluid restriction, hospitalization, and vascular access comp

SUBMITTER: Fotheringham J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9153730 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature