Table 2.

Associations of nondisease-specific problems and mortality, long-term care, and functional impairment among older adults who require skilled nursing care after dialysis initiation

	Number of Nondisease-Specific Problems
	0 to 1	2	3	4 to 6
Mortality among patients who received SNF care following dialysis initiation (n=40,615)
Crude Hazard Ratio (95% CI)	1 (ref)	1.25 (1.20, 1.31)	1.43 (1.36, 1.49)	1.67 (1.60, 1.76)
Multivariable Adjusted Hazard Ratio (95% CI)	1 (ref)	1.26 (1.19, 1.32)	1.40 (1.33, 1.48)	1.66 (1.57, 1.76)
Transition to LTC among patients who survived 6 months (n=24,699)
Crude Odds Ratio (95% CI)	1 (ref)	1.32 (1.24, 1.41)	1.52 (1.42, 1.64)	2.14 (1.97, 2.32)
Multivariable Adjusted Odds Ratio (95% CI)	1 (ref)	1.33 (1.22, 1.45)	1.56 (1.42, 1.71)	2.17 (1.95, 2.41)
Functional impairment among patients who survived 6 months and did not require LTC (n=14,376)
Crude Odds Ratio (95% CI)	1 (ref)	2.00 (1.83, 2.19)	2.92 (2.62, 3.26)	4.48 (3.78, 5.31)
Multivariable Adjusted Odds Ratio (95% CI)	1 (ref)	1.87 (1.68, 2.09)	2.84 (2.48, 3.26)	4.40 (3.54, 5.46)

Multivariable adjustment includes age, sex, ethnicity, race, Medicaid coverage, region of residence, living alone, marital status (married vs not married), primary cause of dialysis, cardiovascular disease comorbidity, other comorbidity, serum albumin, serum creatinine, and hemoglobin. SNF, skilled nursing facility; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; LTC, long-term care.