Research Article
Effect of Combining Conventional and Telehealth Methods on Managing Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: A Retrospective Single-Center Study
Table 5
Comparison of hospitalization rate, drop-out rate, and PD-associated infection.
| | Observation indicators | Outpatient follow-up patients (n = 287) | Remote follow-up patients (n = 114) | Pearson chi-squared test χ2 | value |
| | Number of hospitalization, n (%) | 45 (15.7%) | 18 (15.8%) | 0.001 | 0.978 | | Number of drop out, n (%) | 6 (2.09%) | 3 (2.63%) | 0.109 | 0.718 | | Number of peritonitis, n (per patient-year) | 4 (0.056) | 4 (0.140) | 1.867 | 0.231 | | Number of catheter-related infections, n (per patient-year) | 5 (0.070) | 4 (0.140) | 1.161 | 0.281 |
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Fisher’ precision probability test. |
