Research Article
Bacteremia and Mortality among Patients with Nontunneled and Tunneled Catheters for Hemodialysis
Table 2
Event rates between nontunneled and tunneled catheters.
| | Nontunneled catheter N = 422 | Tunneled catheter N = 248 | value |
| Confirmed bacteremia | Incidence n (%) | 33 (7.8) | 13 (5.2) | 0.203 | 1,000 catheter-days | 1.19 | 0.20 | <0.0001 | Confirmed or possible bacteremia | Incidence n (%) | 63 (14.9) | 24 (9.7) | 0.051 | 1,000 catheter-days | 2.27 | 0.37 | <0.0001 | Dysfunction | Incidence n (%) | 110 (26.1) | 55 (22.2) | 0.259 | 1,000 catheter-days | 3.96 | 0.86 | <0.0001 | Confirmed bacteremia or dysfunction | Incidence n (%) | 143 (33.9) | 68 (27.4) | 0.082 | 1,000 catheter-days | 5.15 | 1.06 | <0.0001 | Confirmed bacteremia or possible bacteremia or dysfunction | Incidence n (%) | 173 (41.0) | 79 (31.8) | 0.018 | 1,000 catheter-days | 6.23 | 1.23 | <0.0001 |
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