Causes of Hospitalization among End-Stage Kidney Disease Cohort before and after Hemodialysis.

ABSTRACT: Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) have a greater risk of comorbidities, including diabetes and anemia, and have higher hospital admission rates than patients with other diseases. The cause of hospital admissions is associated with ESKD prognosis. This retrospective cohort study involved patients with ESKD who received hemodialysis and investigated whether the cause of hospital admission changed before versus after they started hemodialysis. This study recruited 592 patients with ESKD who received hemodialysis at any period between January 2005 and November 2017 and had been assigned the International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) code for ESKD. The patients' demographic data and hospitalization status one year before and two years af

SUBMITTER: Li HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9408097 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature