Home haemodialysis patients have better survival compared with other dialysis modalities.
Some of this crude survival advantage is due to selection of a healthier patient cohort as evidenced by higher transplant wait-listing rates.
The advantage over peritoneal dialysis persisted after adjustment for wait-listing and transplantation over time.
2011-05-02
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Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association
Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Dorothea.Nitsch [at] lshtm.ac.uk
Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2011 May;26(5):1670-7
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