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Table 2 Estimated annual burden in hospital costs of unplanned dialysis in 2005

From: An integrated review of "unplanned" dialysis initiation: reframing the terminology to "suboptimal" initiation

Incident dialysis cases in Canada (2005)a

5,285

Rate of unplanned dialysis

30%

Number of unplanned dialysis starts (5,285 × 0.3)

1586

Annual rate of readmission in unplanned dialysis population

50%

Annual number of readmissions in unplanned dialysis population (1,585 × 0.5)

793

Cost of an unplanned hospitalization for dialysisb

$16,740

Cost of other hospitalization with urinary system diagnosisb

$8,841

Cost of hospitalizations secondary to unplanned dialysis starts (1,585 × $16,740)

$26,541,270

Cost of re-hospitalizations in unplanned dialysis population (793 × $8,841)

$7,008,703

Total annualized hospital costs related to unplanned dialysis

$33,549,973

  1. aCanadian Institute for Health Information, Canadian Organ Replacement Registry Report Volume I: Dialysis and Renal Replacement (Ottawa: CIHI, 2007).
  2. bCanadian Institute for Health Information, The Cost of Hospital Stays: Why Costs Vary (Ottawa: CIHI, 2008).