Tracing all patients who received insured dialysis treatment in Japan and the present situation of their number of deaths.

Shinichiro KuboTatsuya NodaTomoya MyojinYuichi NishiokaSaho KannoTsuneyuki HigashinoMasatoshi NishimotoMasahiro EriguchiKenichi SamejimaKazuhiko TsuruyaTomoaki Imamura

Published in: Clinical and experimental nephrology (2022)

The use of the NDB enabled us to aggregate data of dialysis patients. With the definition of dialysis patients used in this study, analyses of concomitant medications, comorbidities, surgeries, and therapies will become possible, which will be useful in many future studies.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
current status
machine learning
big data
prognostic factors
smoking cessation