Time on Therapy of Automated Peritoneal Dialysis with and without Remote Patient Monitoring: A Cohort Study

Table 3

Time on therapy and mortality rate in the full sample and the matched sample.

Outcomes	Full sample			PS matched sample
	APD-RPM n = 288	APD-without RPM n = 1176	value	APD-RPM n = 287	APD-without RPM n = 287	value
Time on therapy,	18.96 (7.32)	16.59 (8.04)	<0.001	18.95 (7.33)	15.75 (8.1)	<0.001
Months, mean (SD)
Difference, months (95% CI)	2.37 [1.35, 3.39]			3.2 [1.93, 4.46]
Mortality, events/person-year 95% CI	0.10 [0.07, 0.13]	0.14 [0.12, 0.16]	0.013	0.10 [0.07, 0.13]	0.12 [0.09, 0.16]	0.325
IRR, 95% CI	0.67 [0.47, 0.93]			0.81 [0.54, 1.22]

SD: standard deviation; RPM: remote patient monitoring; CI: confidence interval; PS: propensity score; IRR: incidence rate ratio defined as APD-RPM/APD-without RPM.