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Association of Dialysis Modality with Risk for Infection-Related Hospitalization

Author(s) -

JeanPhilippe Lafrance,

Elham Rahme,

Sameena Iqbal,

Naoual Elftouh,

Michel Vallée,

LouisPhilippe Laurin,

Denis Ouimet

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

clinical journal of the american society of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1555-905X

pISSN - 1555-9041

DOI - 10.2215/cjn.00440112

Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , bacteremia , hemodialysis , hazard ratio , dialysis , peritoneal dialysis , retrospective cohort study , propensity score matching , logistic regression , risk factor , surgery , confidence interval , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Peritonitis is a well known complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD), whereas in hemodialysis (HD), bacteremia can be life threatening. Whether patients undergoing PD have higher risk than HD patients for infection-related hospitalizations (IRH) remains unknown.

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