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. 2021 Dec 14;7(4):741–751. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2021.12.015

Table 2.

Care indicators of young patients with ESKD at KRT initiation according to EDI quintiles (quintile 5 most deprived). Data from REIN, metropolitan France, 2002 to 2015

Indicator All children N = 1115
Quintile 1 n = 163 (14.6%)
Quintile 2 n = 144 (12.9%)
Quintile 3 n = 162 (14.5%)
Quintile 4 n = 215 (19.3%)
Quintile 5 n = 431 (38.7%)
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Treatment at initiation
Pre-emptive transplantation 230 (20.6) 42 (25.8) 38 (26.4) 42 (25.9) 41 (19.1) 67 (15.5)
Dialysis 885 (79.4) 121 (74.2) 106 (73.6) 120 (74.1) 174 (80.9) 364 (84.5)
 HD 644 (57.8) 75 (46.0) 71 (49.3) 85 (52.5) 133 (61.8) 280 (65.0)
 Peritoneal dialysis 241 (21.6) 46 (28.2) 35 (24.3) 35 (21.6) 41 (19.1) 84 (19.5)
Pre-emptive registration (missing = 15) 428 (38.4) 77 (48.7) 59 (41.5) 78 (48.4) 74 (34.7) 140 (32.9)
Urgent dialysis initiation (missing = 59) 271 (32.8) 30 (27.8) 44 (45.8) 34 (30.6) 60 (35.9) 103 (29.9)
HD initiation with a catheter (missing = 22) 376 (60.4) 38 (51.4) 52 (75.4) 46 (55.4) 80 (62.5) 160 (59.7)
Late referrala (missing = 467) 62 (11.4) 3 (6.2) 7 (13.2) 7 (13.2) 15 (16.1) 30 (16.4)

EDI, European Deprivation Index; ESKD, end-stage kidney disease; HD, hemodialysis; KRT, kidney replacement therapy; REIN, French kidney replacement therapy registry.

a

Only for children having initiated dialysis in 2009 to 2015, n = 545.