Bacteremia and Mortality among Patients with Nontunneled and Tunneled Catheters for Hemodialysis

Table 4

Cox proportional hazards regression model for 90-day survival.

	Unadjusted			Adjusted
	HR	95% CI	value	HR	95% CI	value
Age (each year)	1.03	1.02–1.05	<0.001	1.04	1.02–1.05	<0.001
DM	1.33	0.90–1.96	0.146	1.23	0.83–1.85	0.296
Nontunneled catheter	3.79	2.29–6.01	<0.001	4.64	2.76–7.80	<0.001
JIV versus FV	1.20	0.79–1.84	0.393	1.46	0.95–2.26	0.085
JIV versus SCV	0.78	0.48–1.25	0.299	1.57	0.93–2.67	0.093
Hb (every 1 g/dL)	0.96	0.87–1.05	0.357	0.90	0.99–1.17	0.029
Albumin (every 1 g/dL)	0.47	0.36–0.62	<0.001	0.51	0.37–0.70	<0.001
Kt/V (every 1 unit)	1.00	0.59–1.70	0.988	0.62	0.37–1.04	0.069

HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence interval; DM: diabetes mellitus; JIV: jugular internal vein; FV: femoral vein; SCV: subclavian vein; Hb: hemoglobin.