Table 2.
Survival, rates of hospitalization, and location of death
| Parameter | All RRT |
Nonemergency Referral RRT Subgroup with ≥14 d of Predialysis Nephrology Care |
Emergency Referral RRT Subgroup with ≤14 d of Predialysis Nephrology Care | HD-Only Patients |
MCM |
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| Value | % | 95% CI or P versus MCM | Value | % | 95% CI or P versus RRT Emergency Referral | Value | % | 95% CI or P versus MCM | Value | % | 95% CI | ||
| n including first 90 d | 173 | 121 | 52 | 112 | 29 | ||||||||
| n excluding first 90 d | 148 | 112 | 36 | 26 | |||||||||
| Survival, mo | |||||||||||||
| including first 90 d (median) | 37.8 | 0.003 | 41.5 | <0.001 | 21.7 | 33.9 | <0.001 | 13.9 | |||||
| excluding first 90 d (median) | 41.9 | <0.001 | 43.0 | 0.17 | 25.8 | – | – | 14.8 | |||||
| Rate of hospitalization (days/pt/yr) | |||||||||||||
| including first 90 d (mean) | 25 | 6.9 | 6.8 to 7.0 | 23 | 6.2 | 6.0 to 6.3 | – | 30 | 8.1 | 7.9 to 8.3 | 16 | 4.3 | 4.0 to 4.7 |
| excluding first 90 d (mean) | 24 | 6.5 | 6.4 to 6.6 | 22 | 6.0 | 5.9 to 6.2 | – | 27 | 7.4 | 7.2 to 7.6 | 15 | 4.2 | 3.8 to 4.5 |
| For HD-only and MCM patients | |||||||||||||
| rate of institutionalization, including first 90 d (mean) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 173 | 47.5 | 4.7 to 4.8 | 16 | 4.3 | 4.0 to 4.7 |
| Location of death, n (%) | |||||||||||||
| Hospital | 70 | 70.0 | <0.05 | 45 | 67.2 | – | – | – | – | 9 | 36.0 | ||
| Home or in Hospice | 21 | 21.0 | 14 | 20.9 | – | – | – | – | 10 | 40.0 | |||
| Unknown | 9 | 9.0 | 8 | 11.9 | – | – | – | – | 6 | 24.0 | |||
| Total deaths | 100 | 67 | 25 | ||||||||||
| OR of dying in hospital | 4.15 | 1.7 to 10.2 | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| RR for dying in hospital | 1.94 | 1.2 to 3.4 | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| Censored/lost to follow-up (n) | 11 | 6.0 | 4 | 3.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||||
RR, relative risk.