Early Mortality Associated with Inpatient versus Outpatient Hemodialysis Initiation in a Large Cohort of US Veterans with Incident End-Stage Renal Disease | Zendy

Faisal Arif | Zendy; Keiichi Sumida | Zendy; Miklos Z. Molnar | Zendy; Praveen K. Potukuchi | Zendy; Jun Lü | Zendy; Fatima Hassan | Zendy; Fridtjof Thomas | Zendy; Omer Siddiqui | Zendy; Geeta Gyamlani | Zendy; Kamyar KalantarZadeh | Zendy; Csaba P. Kövesdy | Zendy

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Early Mortality Associated with Inpatient versus Outpatient Hemodialysis Initiation in a Large Cohort of US Veterans with Incident End-Stage Renal Disease

Author(s) -

Faisal Arif,

Keiichi Sumida,

Miklos Z. Molnar,

Praveen K. Potukuchi,

Jun Lü,

Fatima Hassan,

Fridtjof Thomas,

Omer Siddiqui,

Geeta Gyamlani,

Kamyar KalantarZadeh,

Csaba P. Kövesdy

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

the nephron journals/nephron journals

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.951

H-Index - 72

eISSN - 2235-3186

pISSN - 1660-8151

DOI - 10.1159/000473704

Subject(s) - medicine , hemodialysis , dialysis , nephrology , hazard ratio , end stage renal disease , proportional hazards model , kidney disease , comorbidity , cohort , mortality rate , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , confidence interval

Mortality in the immediate post-hemodialysis transition period is extremely high. Many end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients in the US start dialysis in an inpatient setting, but the characteristics of patients starting dialysis as inpatients, and the association of inpatient hemodialysis transition with mortality remain unclear.

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