Population
24,884 adult Australians and New Zealanders beginning renal replacement therapy in 1999-2008.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
up to 5 years
Authors
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May inform counseling on withdrawal risks in older or late-referred patients; hypothesis-generating for interventions, pending prospective validation.
Dialysis withdrawal is a common cause of death among ESRD patients, with older age, late referral, and higher comorbidity burden being significant risk factors.
Chan et al. (2012) studied this question.
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