期刊
NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION
卷 25, 期 7, 页码 2315-2322出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq003
关键词
competing risk; epidemiology; Kaplan-Meier; peritoneal dialysis; peritonitis; survival
Methods. We analysed peritonitis-free survival in a cohort of 8711 incident patients from the 'Registre de Dialyse Peritoneale de Langue Francaise' between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2007 by calculating the cumulative incidence (CI) of the first episode of peritonitis using the Kaplan-Meier method and a method accounting for competing risks. We compared the CI in different patient groups by the log-rank test and a test developed for competing risk data, Gray's test. Results. After 5 years of PD, the CI of at least one peritonitis episode was 0.4, and the probability of any outcome was 0.96. The Kaplan-Meier method overestimated the CI by a large amount. Compared with the log-rank test, Gray's test led to different conclusions in three out of seven comparisons. Conclusions. The competing risk approach shows that the CI of at least one peritonitis episode was lower than reported by the Kaplan-Meier method but that survival peritonitis-free and still on PD was overall low. The competing risk approach provides estimates which have a clearer interpretation than Kaplan-Meier methods and could be more widely used in PD research.
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