Death after withdrawal from dialysis: The most common cause of death in a French dialysis population

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 686-691

  Birmelé, Béatrice ^a   François, Maud ^a   Pengloan, Josette ^a   Français, Patrick ^b   Testou, Didier ^c   Brillet, Georges ^c   Lechapois, Didier ^d   Baudin, Serge ^e   Grezard, Olivier ^f   Jourdan, Jean Louis ^g   Fodil Cherif, Mohamed ^h   Abaza, Mohamed ⁱ   Dupouet, Luc ^j   Fournier, Gilles ^k   Nivet, Hubert ^a  

^a CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

^b Centre de Dialyse   (France)

^c Centre de Néphrologie   (France)

^d CHG   (France)

^e Clinique Saint Come et Saint Damien   (France)

^f CENTRE HOSPITALIER RÉGIONAL D ORLÉANS   (France)

^g Centre d'Hemodialyse de l'Archette   (France)

^h Clinique d'Hemodialyse Jeanne d'Arc   (France)

ⁱ Plataforma Industrial de Sines Lote Industrial I   (Chile)

^j Service de Néphrologie   (France)

^k AIRBP   (France)

more..

Author keywords

End of life; End stage renal disease; Epidemiology; Withdrawal from dialysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEATH; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; STROKE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 10744220472     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg606     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Neu S, Kjellstrand CM. Stopping long-term dialysis. An empirical study of withdrawal of life-supporting treatment. N Engl J Med 1986; 314: 14-20
2. Hirsch DJ. Death from dialysis termination. Nephrol Dial Transplant 1989; 4: 41-44
3. Bajwa K, Szabo E, Kjellstrand CM. A prospective study of risk factors and decision making in discontinuation of dialysis. Arch Intern Med 1996; 156: 2571-2577
4. Sehgal AR, Weisheit C, Miura Y, Butzlaff M, Kielstein R, Taguchi Y. Advance directives and withdrawal of dialysis in the United States, Germany, and Japan. JAMA 1996; 276: 1652-1656
5. Leggat JE, Bloembergen WE, Levine G, Hulbert-Shearon TE, Port FK. An analysis of risk factors for withdrawal from dialysis before death. J Am Soc Nephrol 1997; 8: 1755-1763
6. Bordenave K, Tzamaloukas AH, Conneen S, Adler K, Keller LK, Murata GH. Twenty-one year mortality in a dialysis unit. Changing effect of withdrawal from dialysis. ASAIO J 1998; 44: 194-198
7. Holley JL. A single-center review of the death notification form: discontinuing dialysis before death is not a surrogate for withdrawal from dialysis. Am J Kidney Dis 2002; 40: 525-530
8. Mignon F, Michel C, Viron B, Mentre F, Jaar B. End-stage renal diseases in patients 75 and over: a new medical, socio-economical and ethical challenge. Eur J Med 1992; 1: 302-307
9. Patte D, Wauters JP, Mignon F. Réflexions à propos de l'arrêt des traitements par dialyse. Néphrologie 1994; 15: 7-11
10. Husebye DG, Kjellstrand CM. Old patients and uremia: rates of acceptance to and withdrawal from dialysis. Int J Artif Organs 1987; 10: 166-172
11. Davies SJ, Phillips L, Naish PF, Russell GI. Quantifying comorbidity in peritoneal dialysis patients and its relationship to other predictors of survival. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2002; 17: 1085-1092
12. Mailloux LU, Belluci AG, Napolitano B, Mossey RT, Wilkes BM, Bluestone PA. Death by withdrawal from dialysis: a 20-year clinical experience. J Am Soc Nephrol 1993; 3: 1631-1637
13. Rodriguez Jornet A, Garcia Garcia M, Hernando P et al. Patients with end-stage chronic renal insufficiency on programmed withdrawal from dialysis. Nefrologia 2001; 21: 150-159
14. Catalano C, Goodship THJ, Graham KA et al. Withdrawal of renal replacement therapy in Newcastle upon Tyne: 1964-1993. Nephrol Dial Transplant 1996; 11: 133-139
15. Sekkarie MA, Moss AH. Withholding and withdrawing dialysis: the role of physician specialty and education and patient functional status. Am J Kidney Dis 1998; 31: 464-472
16. Port FK, Wolfe RA, Hawthorne VM, Ferguson CW. Discontinuation of dialysis therapy as a cause of death. Am J Nephrol 1989; 9: 145-149
17. Munshi SK, Vijayakumar N, Taub NA, Bhullar H, Lo TCN, Warwick G. Outcome of renal replacement therapy in the very elderly. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2001; 16: 128-133
18. Wenger NS, Lynn J, Oye RK et al. Withholding versus withdrawing life-sustained treatment: patient factors and documentation associated with dialysis decisions. J Am Geriatr Soc 2000; 48: S75-S83
19. Nelson CB, Port FK, Wolfe RA, Guire KE. The association of diabetic status, age, and race to withdrawal from dialysis. J Am Soc Nephrol 1994; 4: 1608-1614
20. Silva JEM, Kjellstrand CM. Withdrawing life support. Do families and physicians decide as patients do? Nephron 1988; 48: 201-205