Mortality rate of end-stage kidney disease patients in Taiwan

CONCLUSIONS: From 2010 to 2018, the reduced mortality in young patients and aging of the ESKD population might indicate that the quality of care in Taiwan for ESKD has improved. Furthermore, a better survival rate after dialysis initiation was observed in the pre-ESRD care program participants.PMID:34972608 | DOI:10.1016/j.jfma.2021.12.015

Source: J Formos Med Assoc - January 1, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Bo-Sheng Wu Chia-Ling Helen Wei Chih-Yu Yang Ming-Huang Lin Chih-Cheng Hsu Yu-Juei Hsu Shih-Hua Lin Der-Cherng Tarng Source Type: research