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Trends in dialysis modality choice and related patient survival in the ERA-EDTA Registry over a 20-year period
Author(s) -
Moniek W.M. van de Luijtgaarden,
Kitty J. Jager,
Mårten Segelmark,
Julio Pascual,
Frédéric Collart,
Aline C. Hemke,
César Remón Rodríguez,
Wendy Metcalfe,
Alfonso Miguel,
Reinhard Kramar,
Knut Aasarød,
Ameen AbuHanna,
Raymond T. Krediet,
Staffan Schön,
Pietro Ravani,
Fergus Caskey,
Cécile Couchoud,
Runólfur Pálsson,
Christoph Wanner,
Patrik Finne,
Marlies Noordzij
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfv295
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , dialysis , renal replacement therapy , peritoneal dialysis , confidence interval , incidence (geometry) , proportional hazards model , propensity score matching , transplantation , confounding , hemodialysis , kidney transplantation , kidney disease , surgery , physics , optics
Although previous studies suggest similar patient survival for peritoneal dialysis (PD) and haemodialysis (HD), PD use has decreased worldwide. We aimed to study trends in the choice of first dialysis modality and relate these to variation in patient and technique survival and kidney transplant rates in Europe over the last 20 years.

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