Patients, healthcare providers, and general population preferences for hemodialysis vascular access: a discrete choice experiment.

Background: A patient-centered dialysis treatment option requires an understanding of patient preferences for alternative vascular accesses and nephrologists often face difficulties when recommending vascular access to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients. We aimed to quantify the relative importance of various vascular access characteristics to patients, healthcare providers and general population, and how they affect acceptability for patients and healthcare providers.

Methods: In a discrete choice experiment, patients with maintenance hemodialysis (MHD), healthcare providers, and individuals from the general population were invited to respond to a series of hypothetical vascular access scenarios that differed in five attributes: cumulative patency, infection rate, thrombosis rate, cost, and time to maturation.

Lifestyles and health-related quality of life in Chinese people: a national family study.

Background: There were few studies that investigated health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of the general population in China, and many of them reported limitations in sampling.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between lifestyles and HRQoL in the Chinese population in both individual and family levels.

Method: Online questionnaires were distributed across China to collect demographic information and participants' HRQoL using EuroQoL 5 Dimension scales.