Quality Assurance Audit of Technique Failure and 90-Day Mortality after Program Discharge in a Canadian Home Hemodialysis Program

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Little is known about patients exiting home hemodialysis. We sought to characterize the reasons, clinical characteristics, and pre-exit health care team interactions of patients on home hemodialysis who died or underwent modality conversion (negative disposition) compared with prevalent patients and those who were transplanted (positive disposition).

DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: We conducted an audit of all consecutive patients incident to home hemodialysis from January of 2010 to December of 2014 as part of ongoing quality assurance. Records were reviewed for the 6 months before exit, and vital statistics were assessed up to 90 days postexit.

RESULTS: Ninety-four patients completed training; 25 (27%) received a transplant, 11 (12%) died, and 23 (25%) were transferred to in-center hemodialysis. Compared with the positive disposition group, patients in the negative disposition group had a longer mean dialysis vintage (3.15 [SD=4.98] versus 1.06 [SD=1.16] years; P=0.003) and were performing conventional versus a more intensive hemodialysis prescription (23 of 34 versus 23 of 60; P<0.01). In the 6 months before exit, the negative disposition group had significantly more in-center respite dialysis sessions, had more and longer hospitalizations, and required more on-call care team support in terms of phone calls and drop-in visits (each P<0.05). The most common reason for modality conversion was medical instability in 15 of 23 (65%) followed by caregiver or care partner burnout in three of 23 (13%) each. The 90-day mortality among patients undergoing modality conversion was 26%.

CONCLUSIONS: Over a 6-year period, approximately one third of patients exited the program due to death or modality conversion. Patients who die or transfer to another modality have significantly higher health care resource utilization (e.g., hospitalization, respite treatments, nursing time, etc.).

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CommentIn: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Aug 7;12(8):1209-1211. - PMID 28739574

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

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Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - 12(2017), 8 vom: 07. Aug., Seite 1259-1264

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shah, Nikhil [VerfasserIn]
Reintjes, Frances [VerfasserIn]
Courtney, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Klarenbach, Scott W [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Schick-Makaroff, Kara [VerfasserIn]
Jindal, Kailash [VerfasserIn]
Pauly, Robert P [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Burnout, Professional
Canada
Caregivers
Hemodialysis, Home
Home hemodialysis
Hospitalization
Humans
Intensive hemodialysis
Journal Article
Modality conversion
Mortality
Patient Care Team
Patient Discharge
Prevalence
Program exits
Renal dialysis
Technique failure
Technique survival
Therapy cessation
Training failure
Transplantation
Treatment discontinuation
Vital Statistics

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Date Revised 13.08.2023

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CommentIn: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Aug 7;12(8):1209-1211. - PMID 28739574

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2215/CJN.00140117

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM274143860