Anne-Sophie Truche, Michael Darmon, Sébastien Bailly, Christophe Clec'h, Claire Dupuis, Benoit Misset, Elie Azoulay, Carole Schwebel, Lila Bouadma, Hatem Kallel, Christophe Adrie, Anne-Sylvie Dumenil, Laurent Argaud, Guillaume Marcotte, Samir Jamali, Philippe Zaoui, Virginie Laurent, Dany Goldgran-Toledano, Romain Sonneville, Bertrand Souweine, Jean-Francois Timsit
PURPOSE: The best renal replacement therapy (RRT) modality remains controversial. We compared mortality and short- and long-term renal recovery between patients treated with continuous RRT and intermittent hemodialysis. METHODS: Patients of the prospective observational multicenter cohort database OUTCOMEREA™ were included if they underwent at least one RRT session between 2004 and 2014. Differences in patients' baseline and daily characteristics between treatment groups were taken into account by using a marginal structural Cox model, allowing one to substantially reduce the bias resulting from confounding factors in observational longitudinal data analysis...
September 2016: Intensive Care Medicine