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15800127

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-4-28
pubmed:abstractText
Patient-reported physical and mental health status, along with disease-specific concerns ("quality of life") reported by patients, provide information about experience on dialysis that can help to improve patient care. Among prevalent hemodialysis (HD) patients, blacks have been shown to report higher health status and quality of life scores than whites, but whether similar race differences characterize incident patients who start regular dialysis is not known. Health status and quality of life, measured by the Kidney Disease Quality of Life-Short Form, reported by black men, black women, white men, and white women who initiated HD and peritoneal dialysis (PD) in the Dialysis Morbidity and Mortality Study (DMMS) Wave 2 were examined. After adjustment for patients' sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, the only race differences observed were that among HD patients, black women scored highest on the burden of kidney disease measure (lower perceived burden), and among PD patients, black men had the lowest satisfaction with care scores. It is possible that differences between blacks' and whites' reported health status and quality of life become more evident as patients' dialysis vintage increases, a hypothesis that requires following a well-characterized incident cohort over time. These findings add to existing evidence that minority patients on dialysis report less satisfaction with their care than do white patients, an important area for continued study.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1046-6673
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1440-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Race, gender, and incident dialysis patients' reported health status and quality of life.
pubmed:affiliation
Rehabilitation/Quality Life Special Studies Center, United States Renal Data System, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. nkutner@emory.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural