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Introduction: Red blood cell transfusions have been associated with infection risk. We investigated whether hospital transfusions are associated with infections in maintenance hemodialysis patients requiring transfusions for chronic anemia.
Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, hemodialysis patients who experienced an incident hospitalization during 2012–2013 were identified from the Medicare...
Introduction: Whether and how factors associated with elective hemodialysis withdrawal differ from those associated with non‐withdrawal death soon after maintenance hemodialysis initiation have not been well studied.
Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis was performed using USRDS data from 2011 to 2014. Patients were randomly categorized 2:1 into training and validation samples. Elective withdrawal...
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