Research Article
Bacteremia and Mortality among Patients with Nontunneled and Tunneled Catheters for Hemodialysis
Table 1
Clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients and catheters.
| | Nontunneled catheter N = 422 | Tunneled catheter N = 248 | value |
| Age (in years)a | 54.9 (47.3–64.7) | 57.3 (43.9–67.1) | 0.629 | Diabetes mellitusb | 93 (22%) | 59 (23.8%) | 0.601 | Hemoglobin (g/dl)a | 9.1 (7.9–10.7) | 9.2 (8.2–10.4) | 0.614 | Albumin (g/dl)a | 3.5 (3.1–3.9) | 3.7 (3.4–4) | <0.0001 | Kt/Va | 1.25 (1.1–1.5) | 1.3 (1.1–1.5) | 0.005 | Catheter use time (days)a | 37 (17–80) | 185 (75–344) | <0.0001 | Insertion siteb | | | <0.001 | Right jugular | 194 (46.0) | 78 (31.5) | | Left jugular | 89 (21.1) | 28 (11.3) | | Right subclavian | 21 (5.0) | 63 (25.4) | | Left subclavian | 12 (2.8) | 33 (13.3) | | Right femoral | 75 (17.8) | 23 (9.3) | | Left femoral | 31 (7.3) | 23 (9.3) | |
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aMedian (1st quartile–3rd quartile); babsolute number (%).
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