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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Nephrol. 2009 Jan;29(1):75–84. doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2008.10.011

Table 2.

Projections of Possible Impact of a Systematic Intervention That Improves Albumin Level by 0.2 g/dL in 25% to 75% of Patients With a Baseline Serum Albumin Level of 3.5 g/dL or Less From the FMCNA Dialysis Population

FMCNA Population, Possible Impact of
Intervention
Percentage of Patients With Albumin
Level ≤3.5 g/dL Improved by 0.2 g/dL
25% 50% 75%
Number of hospitalization potential events
avoided (%)
823 (0.80) 1,646 (1.59) 2,468 (2.59)
Potential hospital days avoided (%) 2,624 (0.67) 5,247 (1.35) 7,871 (2.02)
Potential percentage decline in crude death rate −0.24 −0.48 −0.72
Potential lives saved 189 369 553

Abbreviations: FMCNA, Fresenius Medical Care, North America.

Reprinted with permission from Lacson et al.37