Maintaining over time Clinical Performance targets on Anaemia correction in unselected population on chronic dialysis at 20 Italian Centres. Data from a retrospective study for a Clinical Audit

Table 3 Results

		Mean values for patients who maintained target for the whole period				Mean values for the whole sample
Parameter	Total n° of cases	Mean value	Mean SD	Target maintained (cases number)	Target maintained %	Mean value	SD	Cases > 0
HAEMOGLOBIN (g/dl)	536	11.43	0.42	23	4.3	11.3	0.91	536
KTV HD ^	461	1.46	0.7	281	61	1.37	0.06	441
KT/V PD^°	70	2.1	0.02	22	31.4	2.02	0.01	51
IRON mcg/dl	536	59.79	16.76	511	95	59.75	17.4	531
FERRITIN mcg/l	536	250.23	104.07	381	71.1	397.77	148.8	532
TRANSFERRIN mg/dl	536	216.83	19.5	240	44.8	187.65	20.42	488
TRANSFERRIN SATURATION %	536	34.33	6.56	45	8.4	24.08	7.63	484
Erythropoietin dose IU/Kg/wk	536	155.21	41.54	400	74.6	143.41	40.87	457

"zero" values are excluded from the calculation of averages.
^ Cases of patients undergoing both dialysis techniques during the observation period were excluded.
° Not all centres provided data.

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