Table 3.

Patient preferences for home dialysis (HD and PD) compared with in-center dialysis

Attributes for Home Dialysis (HD and PD)	β	OR (95% CI)	P Value
Treatment attributes (random parameters)
Out of pocket cost (per extra $)	−0.02	0.98 (0.97 to 0.99)	0.003
Life expectancy (per extra year)	0.49	1.63 (1.25 to 2.12)	<0.001
Flexibility of treatments (per unit increase in flexibility: hard to change, sometimes possible to change, or easy to change)	2.22	9.22 (2.71 to 31.3)	<0.001
How well you feel on dialysis (per unit improvement)a	5.35	210 (15.0 to 2489)	<0.001
Availability of transport (versus all transport provided)
Respondents living <100 km from nearest dialysis center
Transport sometimes provided	−0.86	0.42 (0.05 to 3.24)	0.40
Transport never provided	−1.61	0.20 (0.02 to 1.59)	0.10
Respondents living >100 km from nearest dialysis center
Transport sometimes provided	3.20	24.5 (0.85 to 706)	0.06
Transport never provided	−3.82	0.02 (0.001 to 0.48)	0.02
Availability of nurse support (versus nurse present during each dialysis session)
Minimal nurse support (telephone only 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.)	1.64	5.18 (0.42 to 63.3)	0.20
Limited nurse support (24-h phone support and scheduled home visits)	−4.27	0.01 (<0.01 to 3.28)	0.10
Unlimited nurse support (24-h phone support and as many home visits as requested)	4.47	87.30 (3.78 to 2014)	<0.01
Treatment time (versus during day only)
During day/evening	4.49	89.01 (6.51 to 1217)	<0.001
Only overnight	−5.83	<0.01 (<0.01 to 0.09)	<0.001

OR>1 favors home hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Mixed logit model (n=143). Log likelihood of −936.77768. Akaike Information Criterion n=1.188. McFadden pseudo-R² =0.496. HD, hemodialysis; PD, peritoneal dialysis; OR, odds ratio; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval.

^aFrom worse than now to same as now and from same as now to better than now.