Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of catheters during baseline, intervention or both phases
| Characteristic | Study Phase |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline only | Both phases | Intervention only | ||||
| Number of catheters | 4205 | 1073 | 4594 | |||
| Catheter type, n (%) | ||||||
| Tunneled | 2889 | (68.7%) | 1038 | (96.7%) | 3,476 | (75.7%) |
| Nontunneled | 1316 | (31.3%) | 35 | (3.3%) | 1,118 | (24.3%) |
| Venous insertion site, n (%) | ||||||
| R internal jugular | 2887 | (68.7%) | 859 | (80.1%) | 3,254 | (70.8%) |
| L internal jugular | 611 | (14.5%) | 151 | (14.1%) | 685 | (14.9%) |
| R femoral | 406 | (9.7%) | 16 | (1.5%) | 362 | (7.9%) |
| L femoral | 161 | (3.8%) | 8 | (0.7%) | 165 | (3.6%) |
| R subclavian | 73 | (1.7%) | 26 | (2.4%) | 72 | (1.6%) |
| L subclavian | 41 | (1.0%) | 6 | (0.6%) | 25 | (0.5%) |
| Other | 26 | (0.6%) | 7 | (0.7%) | 31 | (0.7%) |
| Reason for catheter insertion, n (%) | ||||||
| Acute kidney injury | 1675 | (39.8%) | 196 | (18.3%) | 1,618 | (35.2%) |
| Commence maintenance HD | 1270 | (30.2%) | 488 | (45.5%) | 1,679 | (36.5%) |
| AV access complication | 734 | (17.5%) | 203 | (18.9%) | 794 | (17.3%) |
| Transfer from PD | 451 | (10.7%) | 165 | (15.4%) | 427 | (9.3%) |
| Failing transplant | 25 | (0.6%) | 14 | (1.3%) | 24 | (0.5%) |
| Other | 50 | (1.2%) | 7 | (0.7%) | 52 | (1.1%) |
| Catheter proceduralist, n (%) | ||||||
| Interventional radiology | 2067 | (49.2%) | 638 | (59.5%) | 2,564 | (55.8%) |
| Critical care | 936 | (22.3%) | 47 | (4.4%) | 738 | (16.1%) |
| Nephrology | 622 | (14.8%) | 176 | (16.4%) | 687 | (15.0%) |
| Surgery | 509 | (12.1%) | 182 | (17.0%) | 492 | (10.7%) |
| Not known | 71 | (1.7%) | 30 | (2.8%) | 113 | (2.5%) |
AV, arteriovenous; HD, hemodialysis; PD, peritoneal dialysis; L, Left; R, Right.