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