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Table 3 Unadjusted cumulative incidence for all-cause and cause-specific mortality, overall hospitalization and peritonitis

From: Comparison of outcomes between emergent-start and planned-start peritoneal dialysis in incident ESRD patients: a prospective observational study

 

PD

HD

Planned-start

Emergent-start

p value

Planned-start

Emergent-start

p value

AVF/AVG

CVC

All-cause mortality, n (%)

2 (4.6)

3 (4.5)

1.000a

9 (7.7)#

34 (14.0)$

16 (43.2)#$

< 0.001b

Cause-specific mortality, n (%)

 Infection

1 (2.3)

0 (0)

0.387a

5 (4.3)#

18 (7.9)$

9 (24.3)#$

< 0.001b

  Peritonitis related

1 (2.3)

0 (0)

0.387a

–

–

–

 

  HD access related

–

–

–

2 (1.7)#

3 (1.2)$

6 (16.2)#$

< 0.001b

  Other infection

0 (0)

0 (0)

–

3 (2.6)

16 (6.7)

3 (8.1)

0.235b

 Cardiovascular

0 (0)

1 (1.5)

1.000a

2 (1.7)

9 (3.7)

1 (2.7)

0.588b

 Cancer

1 (2.3)

1 (1.5)

1.000a

0 (0)#

3 (1.2)$

4 (10.8)#$

< 0.001b

 Others

0 (0)

1 (1.5)

1.000a

2 (1.7)

3 (1.2)

2 (5.4)

0.200b

Overall hospitalization, n (%)

18 (41.9)

42 (61.8)

0.040b

50 (43.1)*#

136 (56.0)*

23 (62.2)#

0.036b

 Hospital days, per admissionc

5.5 (3.3–10.5)

6.9 (4.0–11.6)

0.545d

7.1 (4.0–13.7)

7.8 (4.0–15.7)

12.0 (5.8–25.9)

0.268e

 Hospital admission rate (per 100 patient-months)

5.52

7.35

< 0.001f

5.01#

5.38$

13.87#$

< 0.001f

Incidence of peritonitis (per 100 patient-months)

0.97

1.29

0.937f

–

–

–

–

  1. aFisher’s exact test; b χ2; c Values reported as median (interquartile range); d Mann-Whitney U test; e Kruskal-Wallis H test; f Poisson test. *, #, $ p < 0.05