Figure 1.

Reasons for exclusions and process to determine peritoneal dialysis (PD) eligibility. In total, 2334 subjects were initially included in the study cohort if they had a diagnosis of ESRD and initiated dialysis, received at least 30 days of dialysis, or initiated dialysis as an outpatient. These patients were considered appropriate for chronic modality assessment by the sites participating in the Dialysis Measurement, Analysis, and Reporting quality assurance program; 153 (6.6%) recovered renal function, and 117 (5.0%) were not able to be assessed for PD. Of the remaining patients, 530 (26%) had a contraindication to PD, and 158 (7.6%) had barriers to self-care PD that could not be overcome in the judgment of their interdisciplinary dialysis team; 44 patients died before receiving outpatient dialysis, 71 did not received outpatient PD or hemodialysis (HD) within 90 days, and 186 initiated on self-care PD, leaving 872 in the HD control group and 203 in the assisted PD group.