...Katherine Mikovna Scovner; Simon Correa; Brian L. Claggett; Conor D. Barrett; Sushrut S. Waikar; Scott D. Solomon; Finnian R. Mc Causland Introduction: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is associated with higher rates of hospitalization compared...

... disease (ESKD). Mortality and hospitalizations among patients with SCD who develop ESKD remain understudied. Furthermore, prior studies focused only on SCD patients where ESKD was caused by SCD. We aimed to describe mortality and hospitalization risk in all SCD patients initiating dialysis and explore...

... as a proxy indicator for SES upon mortality and hospitalization in maintenance HD patients. Methods: We used HD-quality assessment data from the year of 2015 for collecting demographic and clinical data. The subjects were classified into Medical Aid (MA) recipients (low SES) and National Health Insurance...

...Sarah J. Ramer; Nicolas A. Baddour; Edward D. Siew; Huzaifah Salat; Aihua Bian; Thomas G. Stewart; Susan P.Y. Wong; Manisha Jhamb; Khaled Abdel-Kader Background: Older adults with advanced non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (NDD-CKD) face a high risk of hospitalization and related...

... patients after 4 different events (hospital discharge, medical procedure, antibiotics, completion of training). Telephone-led interviews using a standardized assessment tool were performed over a 2-week period to assess a patient’s care and adjust treatment as required. Upon completion, patients were...

..., the relationship between all-cause hospitalization risk and the current CKD staging system has not been well studied among older adults, despite a high prevalence of CKD and a high risk of hospitalization in old age. Methods: Among 4,766 participants of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, CKD was staged...

...Eric D. Weinhandl; Debabrata Ray; Kristine M. Kubisiak; Allan J. Collins Background: The dialysis patient population in the United States continues to grow. Trends in rates of death and hospitalization among dialysis patients have important consequences for outpatient dialysis capacity and Medicare...

... with the risk of subsequent hospitalization. Methods: In a prospective cohort of 1,804 HD patients aged ≥65 years enrolled in the Japanese Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study phases 3 (2005–2008) and 4 (2009–2011), we examined the associations between changes in body mass index (BMI) over a 4-month...

... risk. Methods: The 16-item Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomatology-Self Report scale (QIDS-SR 16 ) was administered to 266 consecutive outpatients with non-dialysis CKD, followed prospectively for 12 months for an apriori composite outcome of death or dialysis or hospitalization. Association...

...Oluwaseun Opelami; Ankit Sakhuja; Xiaobo Liu; W.H. Wilson Tang; Jesse D. Schold; Sankar D. Navaneethan Background/Aims: Dialysis patients are at a higher risk for cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED) infection-related hospitalizations. We compared the outcomes and cost for dialysis...

... with all-cause hospitalization and patient survival. Relationships between GA, HbA1c, and casual plasma glucose (PG) with cause-specific cardiovascular (CV) disease, infectious disease (ID), and vascular access- (VA) related hospitalization rates and length of stay (LOS) were assessed. Methods: 444...

... participants aged ≥18 years, with serum creatinine, urine protein, and hemoglobin measurements. We assessed the association between CKD (stratified by stage) and HRU based on self-reported physician visits and hospitalizations in the year preceding the survey. Results: Of the 15,258 included in this analysis...

... access-related hospitalizations in the immediately preceding 1 year. Risk estimates for hospitalization were assessed using a multinominal logistic analysis model. We measured functional status, utilizing a 14-point Karnofsky scale, and in a separate analysis of covariance, in which Karnofsky score...

...Waqar H. Kazmi; Gregorio T. Obrador; Maya Sternberg; Jill Lindberg; Brian Schreiber; Vyoone Lewis; Brian J.G. Pereira Background/Aims: Hospitalizations account for 41% of the total cost of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) care. Carnitine deficiency is common among dialysis patients, and some studies...

... to the multivariate logistic regression model, risk factors for increased mortality in the older group were: number of hospitalization days during the past 3 months (OR 34.8, 95% CI 8.3–145.7, p < 0.001) and lower weight (OR 16.6, 95% CI 2.0–139.0, p = 0.001). Conclusion: We may conclude that, in our hands, life...

...Muhammad S. Yaqub; Jeffery Leiser; Bruce A. Molitoris The effect of hospitalization on an ESRD patient’s hemoglobin (Hgb) level and erythropoietin (Epo) requirement has not been investigated. We postulated patients with end stage renal disease required an increased Epo dose to maintain stable Hgb...

... not been studied in a national population. Methods: Therefore, 33,479 renal transplant recipients in the United States Renal Data System from July 1, 1994 to June 30, 1997 were analyzed in a retrospective registry study of the incidence, associated factors, and mortality of hospitalizations with a primary...

...Bryan N. Becker; Roger W. Coomer; Chris Fotiadis; James Evanson; Yu Shyr; Raymond M. Hakim Background/Aims: Hemodialysis (HD) patients are hospitalized more frequently than patients with other chronic diseases, averaging 11.5 hospital days/patient/year. Hospital costs attributable to renal failure...

...Harold I. Feldman; Warren B. Bilker; Monica Hackett; Christopher W. Simmons; John H. Holmes; Mark V. Pauly; José J. Escarce Objectives: To determine if reuse of hemodialyzers is associated with higher rates of hospitalization and their resulting costs among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients...

...Chamberlain I. Obialo; Beverly Hernandez; Dianne Carter Underdialyzed patients have high hospitalization and mortality rates. It is unclear if such patients receive adequate dialysis during hospitalization. In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated single treatment delivered dialysis dose during...