Table 5. Concordance between the Final Choice and the Definitive Method with and without an Education Process in patients with a planned or an unplanned start.
| 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) | ||||||
| Unplanned start | |||||||
| HD | 44 | 43 | 1 | ||||
| PD | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | |||
| CT | 9 | 1 | 8 | ||||
| Total | 62 | 48 | 5 | 9 | |||
| - | |||||||
| Planned start | |||||||
| HD | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Educated patients | 0.85 (0.75–0.95) | ||||||
| Unplanned start | |||||||
| HD | 46 | 45 | 1 | ||||
| PD | 53 | 6 | 47 | ||||
| CT | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 101 | 52 | 48 | 1 | |||
| 0.93 (0.89–0.98) | |||||||
| Planned start | |||||||
| HD | 91 | 89 | 2 | ||||
| PD | 105 | 5 | 100 | ||||
| TX | 4 | 4 | |||||
| CT | 11 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| Total | 211 | 95 | 102 | 4 | 10 | ||
Abbreviations: CT, conservative treatment; HD, in-center hemodialysis; PD, peritonealdialysis; and TX, living-donor preemptive transplantation.