Table 1.

Demographics of patients included in this retrospective analysis of this quality initiative (intention-to-treat cohort) and the propensity score matched control cohort

Intention-To-Treat Cohort	Aligned (163 patients)	Not-Aligned (163 patients)	P (aligned vs. not aligned)
Age [years]	66.41+/−15.29	65.32+/−13.37	0.49
Hemodialysis vintage [years]*	2.8 [1.1 to 5.1]	1.6 [0.4 to 4.4]	< 0.001
Male gender [yes/no]	52.15%	54.6%	0.74
Catheter [yes/no]	22.09%	25.15%	0.6
White Race [yes/no]	60.74%	60.12%	1
Diabetes [yes/no]	65.64%	66.26%	1
Hispanic Ethnicity [yes/no]	8.59%	7.98%	1
Interdialytic weight gain (% of post-dialysis body weight)	2.53+/−0.93	2.67+/−0.97	0.19
Pre-dialysis systolic blood pressure [mmHg]	145.17+/−20.05	145.12+/−19.33	0.98
Serum sodium [mEq/L]	135.8+/−1.35	135.76+/−2.47	0.86
Patients with at least 1 hospitalization [yes/no]	14.11%	20.25%	0.19

*Data presented as median [25th to 75th percentile]; group comparison by non-parametric testing