Patient Survival: expected patient survival?

September 20, 2009 by admin

The expected patient survival is the average length of life of patients on dialysis given the patients' age, size, race, sex, ethnicity, whether or not they have diabetes, how long they have had kidney failure, and whether they had other health problems when they started dialysis. For example, facilities with more older patients or more very ill patients would have a lower expected patient survival rate.