Multilevel joint modeling of hospitalization and survival in patients on dialysis

• Published in: Stat (International Statistical Institute) Vol. 10; no. 1
• Main Authors: Kürüm, Esra, Nguyen, Danh V., Li, Yihao, Rhee, Connie M., Kalantar‐Zadeh, Kamyar, Şentürk, Damla
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Hague Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.12.2021
• Subjects: Algorithms; biostatistics; Data structures; Dialysis; Hemodialysis; Hospitalization; longitudinal data; Mortality; Multilevel; Patients; Risk analysis; SUBJECT AREAS; Survival; survival analysis; TOPICS; United States > US

More than 720,000 patients with end‐stage renal disease in the United States require life‐sustaining dialysis treatment. In this population of typically older patients with a high morbidity burden, hospitalization is frequent at a rate of about twice per patient‐year. Aside from frequent hospitaliza...