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    Title: Effects of early frequent nephrology care on emergency department visits among patients with end-stage renal disease
    Authors: Chen, YY;Chen, LK;Huang, JW;Yang, JY
    Contributors: Institute of Population Health Sciences
    Abstract: In this retrospective cohort study, we examined the association between predialysis nephrology care status and emergency department (ED) events among patients with end-stage renal disease. Data pertaining to 76,702 patients who began dialysis treatment between 1999 and 2010 were obtained from the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan (NHIRD). The patients were divided into three groups based on the timing of the first nephrology care visit prior to the initiation of maintenance dialysis, and the frequency of nephrologist visits (i.e., early referral/frequent consultation, early referral/infrequent consultation, late referral). At 1-year post-dialysis initiation, a large number of the patients had experienced at least one all-cause ED visit (58%), infection-related ED visit (17%), or potentially avoidable ED visit (7%). Cox proportional hazard models revealed that patients who received early frequent care faced an 8% lower risk of all-cause ED visit (HR: 0.92; 95% CI: 0.90⁻0.94), a 24% lower risk of infection-related ED visit (HR: 0.76; 95% CI: 0.73⁻0.79), and a 24% lower risk of avoidable ED visit (HR: 0.76; 95% CI: 0.71⁻0.81), compared with patients in the late referral group. With regard to the patients undergoing early infrequent consultations, the only marginally significant association was for infection-related ED visits. Recurrent event analysis revealed generally consistent results. Overall, these findings indicate that continuous nephrology care from early in the predialysis period could reduce the risk of ED utilization in the first year of dialysis treatment.
    Date: 2019-03-31
    Relation: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019 Mar 31;16(7):Article number 1158.
    Link to: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071158
    Cited Times(WOS): https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000465595800071
    Cited Times(Scopus): https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85064211710
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