Trends in Vascular Access Among Patients Initiating Hemodialysis in the US

Michael Allon; Yi Zhang; Mae Thamer; Deidra C Crews; Timmy Lee

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.26458

Trends in Vascular Access Among Patients Initiating Hemodialysis in the US

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Aug 1;6(8):e2326458. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.26458.

Authors

Michael Allon¹, Yi Zhang², Mae Thamer², Deidra C Crews³, Timmy Lee^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
² Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.
³ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Division of Nephrology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study uses the US Renal Data System database to analyze trends in vascular access among more than 600 000 patients who initiated hemodialysis from 2015 to 2020.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Humans
Kidney Failure, Chronic* / epidemiology
Kidney Failure, Chronic* / therapy
Renal Dialysis*

Grants and funding

R01 MD013818/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States