Table 2.

Relative hazards of death for daily home hemodialysis patients in intention-to-treat and as-treated analyses

	Intention to Treat		As Treated
	HR (95% CI)	P	HR (95% CI)	P
All-cause mortality	0.87 (0.78–0.97)	0.01	0.82 (0.72–0.94)	<0.01
Cause-specific mortality
cardiovascular disease	0.92 (0.78–1.09)	0.34	0.83 (0.67–1.01)	0.06
infection	1.13 (0.84–1.53)	0.41	1.17 (0.83–1.66)	0.38
cachexia/dialysis withdrawal	0.63 (0.41–0.95)	0.03	0.70 (0.44–1.11)	0.13
other specified cause	1.06 (0.81–1.37)	0.69	1.19 (0.88–1.61)	0.25
unknown cause	0.59 (0.44–0.79)	<0.01	0.41 (0.28–0.62)	<0.01
Interval-specific mortality (mo)
1–6	0.88 (0.78–0.98)	0.02	0.77 (0.68–0.89)	<0.01
7–12	0.89 (0.78–1.02)	0.10	0.75 (0.63–0.89)	<0.01
13–18	0.92 (0.78–1.09)	0.32	0.81 (0.65–1.01)	0.06
19–24	0.95 (0.76–1.20)	0.69	0.89 (0.66–1.21)	0.45
≥25	0.92 (0.66–1.28)	0.61	0.95 (0.62–1.47)	0.82

Referent: matched thrice-weekly in-center patients.