Open Access<p>Estimating the Fraction of First-Year Hemodialysis Deaths Attributable to Potentially Modifiable Risk Factors: Results from the DOPPS</p>
Author(s) -
Angelo Karaboyas,
Hal Morgenstern,
Yun Li,
Brian Bieber,
Raymond M. Hakim,
Takeshi Hasegawa,
Michel Jadoul,
Elke Schaeffner,
Raymond Vanholder,
Ronald L. Pisoni,
Friedrich K. Port,
Bruce M. Robinson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s233197
Subject(s) - medicine , attributable risk , dialysis , confounding , hemodialysis , population , dialysis adequacy , proportional hazards model , prospective cohort study , creatinine , epidemiology , environmental health
Mortality among first-year hemodialysis (HD) patients remains unacceptably high. To address this problem, we estimate the proportions of early HD deaths that are potentially preventable by modifying known risk factors.