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Table 3 Relation between frailty, hospitalization, and peritonitis rate

From: Depression does not predict clinical outcome of Chinese peritoneal Dialysis patients after adjusting for the degree of frailty

Frailty

none

mild

moderate

severe

P-value

No of patients

73

74

51

69

 

Without hospitalization, no. of patients (%)

22 (30.1%)

24 (32.4%)

15 (29.4%)

11 (15.9%)

p = 0.058a

Number of hospitalization

2.10 ± 2.54

2.26 ± 2.90

3.35 ± 3.29

3.74 ± 3.43

p < 0.0001b

Duration of hospitalization (days)

7.0 (0.0–15.0)

5.0 (0.0–17.0)

11.0 (0.0–30.5)

14.0 (3.0–32.0)

p = 0.004b

Peritonitis-free, no. of patients (%)

56 (76.7%)

60 (81.1%)

34 (66.7%)

53 (76.8%)

p = 0.6a

Number of peritonitis episode (per year)

0.27 ± 0.53

0.32 ± 0.85

0.45 ± 0.70

0.33 ± 0.66

p = 0.5b

  1. Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation or median (inter-quartile range), and compared by aKendall’s tau test and bSpearman rank order correlation coefficient