Table 4.
Patient preferences for home HD and PD compared with in-center dialysis
| Home HD | PD | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attributes for Home HD and PD | β | OR (95% CI) | P Value | β | OR (95% CI) | P Value |
| Constant | 7.98 | 2926 (0.04 to 208,746,259) | 0.16 | 5.62 | 276 (0.001 to 141,306,239) | 0.40 |
| Training duration | ||||||
| Home HD training time 6 wk (versus 12 wk) | 2.76 | 15.7 (1.95 to 127) | <0.01 | |||
| Home HD training time 18 wk (versus 12 wk) | 5.47 | 237 (15.8 to 3548) | <0.001 | |||
| PD training time 7 d (versus 5 d) | 2.05 | 7.77 (1.31 to 45.92) | 0.02 | |||
| PD training 10 d (versus 5 d) | −1.24 | 0.29 (0.06 to 1.35) | 0.01 | |||
| Length of treatment | ||||||
| Short daily dialysis (3 versus 5 h) | −3.54 | 0.03 (<0.01 to 1.10) | 0.06 | |||
| Overnight dialysis (8 versus 5 h) | 4.41 | 82.7 (8.21 to 832) | <0.001 | |||
| Overnight dialysis (8 h versus four exchanges per day) | 1.62 | 5.05 (0.16 to 164.2) | 0.40 | |||
| No. of treatments per week (per extra treatment from three per week) | 1.79 | 5.96 (0.95 to 37.45) | 0.06 | |||
| Sociodemographic factors (fixed parameters) | ||||||
| Age group (<65 versus >65 yr) | −0.19 | 0.82 (0.75 to 0.90) | <0.001 | −0.18 | 0.84 (0.76 to 0.92) | <0.001 |
| Less than high school education (versus more than high school education) | −1.41 | 0.24 (0.08 to 0.73) | 0.01 | −1.61 | 0.20 (0.07 to 0.59) | 0.004 |
| Ethnicity (versus New Zealand European) | ||||||
| New Zealand Maori | 0.53 | 1.69 (0.24 to 11.9) | 0.60 | 4.89 | 132 (5.79 to 3023) | 0.002 |
| Pacific Islander | −7.96 | <0.01 (<0.01 to 0.03) | <0.001 | −14.16 | <0.01 (<0.01 to <0.01) | <0.001 |
| Other ethnicity | 3.01 | 20.3 (0.14 to 2926) | 0.20 | 0.52 | 1.68 (0.01 to 436) | 0.90 |
| Not own home owner | 0.23 | 1.26 (0.44 to 3.60) | 0.70 | 1.19 | 3.29 (0.96 to 11.3) | 0.06 |
| Household no. >5 | 4.04 | 56.8 (6.49 to 497) | <0.001 | 7.58 | 1958 (77.7 to 49,450) | <0.001 |
| Distance to nearest dialysis unit >100 km | 6.26 | 521 (34.4 to 7881) | <0.001 | 3.45 | 31.5 (4.95 to 201) | <0.001 |
| No preferred dialysis access choice | −2.85 | 0.06 (0.01 to 0.32) | 0.001 | −7.31 | <0.01 (<0.01 to 0.02) | <0.001 |
| Annual household income <$60,000/yr | −3.73 | 0.02 (0.003 to 0.18) | <0.001 | −2.23 | 0.11 (0.02 to 0.54) | <0.01 |
| Employed full time | 2.13 | 8.42 (1.67 to 42.4) | <0.01 | 2.37 | 10.73 (2.33 to 49.4) | 0.002 |
OR>1 favors home HD or PD. 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.