Sex disparities in the utilization of nurse-assisted peritoneal dialysis: a mediation analysis using data from the REIN registry.

Background: This study was carried out to evaluate the association between patient sex and the proportion of nurse-assisted peritoneal dialysis (PD) at dialysis initiation and to explore whether sex disparities in nurse-assisted PD utilization was explained by predialysis care and/or by social deprivation using mediation analysis.

Methods: This was a retrospective study using data from the Renal Epidemiology and Information Network (REIN) registry linked to the French National Healthcare Database (SNDS) of incident patients between 1 January 2017 and 30 June 2018. A regression logistic was used for statistical analysis.

Are sex differences in the outcome of peritoneal dialysis explained by nurse assistance? A cohort study with data from the Registre de Dialyse Péritonéale de Langue Française.

Background: We aimed to evaluate sex differences in peritoneal dialysis (PD) outcomes and to explore direct and indirect effects of nurse-assisted PD on outcomes.

Methods: This was a retrospective study using data from the Registre de Dialyse Péritonéale de Langue Française of incident PD patients between 2005 and 2016. Cox proportional hazards modelling was used to analyse transfer to haemodialysis (HD), death, PD failure, peritonitis and renal transplantation.

Access to preemptive registration on the waiting list for renal transplantation: a hierarchical modeling approach.

Preemptive kidney transplantation is associated with both longer patient and graft survival. This study was carried out to estimate the association between the renal units and preemptive registration on the waiting list for first deceased donor renal transplantation in a French network of care. From 2008 to 2012, 1529 adult patients followed in 48 units of the French North-West network and registered on the waiting list for a first deceased donor renal allograft were included.