Does the risk of peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis vary by time on treatment?

BACKGROUND: Early retraining of patients/caregivers at 3 months after peritoneal dialysis (PD) initiation is recommended to prevent peritonitis. We sought to better understand if the risk of peritonitis was highest early after the initiation of PD and if the risk varied by time on therapy and by organism. METHODS: Using the multicenter Canadian Baxter POET database, we studied 4,247 incident PD patients. Time on dialysis was divided into …