Journal article
A multinational cohort study of in-center daily hemodialysis and patient survival
Abstract
Increasing hemodialysis frequency from three to six times per week improves left-ventricular mass and health-related quality of life; however, effects on survival remain uncertain. To study this, we identified 556 patients in the International Quotidian Dialysis Registry who received daily hemodialysis (more than five times per week) between 2001 and 2010. Using propensity score-based matching, we matched 318 of these patients to 575 …
Authors
Suri RS; Lindsay RM; Bieber BA; Pisoni RL; Garg AX; Austin PC; Moist LM; Robinson BM; Gillespie BW; Couchoud CG
Journal
Kidney International, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 300–307
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
February 2013
DOI
10.1038/ki.2012.329
ISSN
0085-2538