An overnight lifeline

[okarol]

Feb 1, 2007
An overnight lifeline

Trucker in UI study receives dialysis while he is sleeping


URL: http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070201/NEWS/70201056

sorry - unable to apply for permission to reprint at the present so only link is given.

[Sluff]

Where in the world did they come up with a 3 year survival rate being on dialysis???

[okarol]

I know, it's mind boggling - the survival rate number never seems accurate.
Of course, the overall health and age of the patient should be taken into account.
Part of the problem is that they are including 87 year old patients who survive
less than 3 months on dialysis, and there are many of those. But of course
reporters never take that into account. I wish I could find up to date, accurate
statistics, but most studies are at lest 10 years old. I have to believe things are
getting better.

[Sluff]

I know, it's mind boggling - the survival rate number never seems accurate.
Of course, the overall health and age of the patient should be taken into account.
Part of the problem is that they are including 87 year old patients who survive
less than 3 months on dialysis, and there are many of those. But of course
reporters never take that into account. I wish I could find up to date, accurate
statistics, but most studies are at lest 10 years old. I have to believe things are
getting better.

Now it makes more sense how they came up with that number.