Table 4. Concordance between the Final Choice and the Definitive Method with and without an Education Process.
| Final Choice | Definitive Modality Distribution per Each Final Choice | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HD | PD | TX | CT | ||||
| n | n | n | n | n | Kappa (95% CI) | ||
| Non-educated patients | 0.73 (0.55–0.91) | ||||||
| HD | 45 | 44 | 1 | ||||
| PD | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | |||
| CT | 9 | 1 | 8 | ||||
| Total | 63 | 49 | 5 | 9 | |||
| Educated patients | 0.91 (0.86–0.95) | ||||||
| HD | 137 | 134 | 3 | ||||
| PD | 158 | 11 | 147 | ||||
| TX | 4 | 4 | |||||
| CT | 13 | 2 | 11 | ||||
| Total | 312 | 147 | 150 | 4 | 11 | ||
Abbreviations: CT, conservative treatment; HD, in-center hemodialysis; PD, peritoneal dialysis; and TX, living-donor preemptive transplantation.