Cost of Home HD vs. Standard In-center HD in Dollars and Lives in France

Among 42,605 patients on HD in France (28,317 prevalent and 14,288 incident), 265 incident (53 at home) and 765 prevalent (153 at home) patients were propensity score matched to examine costs of care. For both incident and prevalent patients, the global costs of daily home HD were lower than for in-center—and in-center was associated with a 7-fold higher risk of death than daily home HD.

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Tags: Propensity Score, Costs Of Care, Mortality