Table 3.
Unadjusted cumulative incidence for all-cause and cause-specific mortality, overall hospitalization and peritonitis
| PD | HD | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planned-start | Emergent-start | p value | Planned-start | Emergent-start | p value | ||
| AVF/AVG | CVC | ||||||
| All-cause mortality, n (%) | 2 (4.6) | 3 (4.5) | 1.000a | 9 (7.7)# | 34 (14.0)$ | 16 (43.2)#$ | < 0.001b |
| Cause-specific mortality, n (%) | |||||||
| Infection | 1 (2.3) | 0 (0) | 0.387a | 5 (4.3)# | 18 (7.9)$ | 9 (24.3)#$ | < 0.001b |
| Peritonitis related | 1 (2.3) | 0 (0) | 0.387a | – | – | – | |
| HD access related | – | – | – | 2 (1.7)# | 3 (1.2)$ | 6 (16.2)#$ | < 0.001b |
| Other infection | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | – | 3 (2.6) | 16 (6.7) | 3 (8.1) | 0.235b |
| Cardiovascular | 0 (0) | 1 (1.5) | 1.000a | 2 (1.7) | 9 (3.7) | 1 (2.7) | 0.588b |
| Cancer | 1 (2.3) | 1 (1.5) | 1.000a | 0 (0)# | 3 (1.2)$ | 4 (10.8)#$ | < 0.001b |
| Others | 0 (0) | 1 (1.5) | 1.000a | 2 (1.7) | 3 (1.2) | 2 (5.4) | 0.200b |
| Overall hospitalization, n (%) | 18 (41.9) | 42 (61.8) | 0.040b | 50 (43.1)*# | 136 (56.0)* | 23 (62.2)# | 0.036b |
| Hospital days, per admissionc | 5.5 (3.3–10.5) | 6.9 (4.0–11.6) | 0.545d | 7.1 (4.0–13.7) | 7.8 (4.0–15.7) | 12.0 (5.8–25.9) | 0.268e |
| Hospital admission rate (per 100 patient-months) | 5.52 | 7.35 | < 0.001f | 5.01# | 5.38$ | 13.87#$ | < 0.001f |
| Incidence of peritonitis (per 100 patient-months) | 0.97 | 1.29 | 0.937f | – | – | – | – |
aFisher’s exact test; b χ2; c Values reported as median (interquartile range); d Mann-Whitney U test; e Kruskal-Wallis H test; f Poisson test. *, #, $ p < 0.05