This observational prospective study combined clinical expert knowledge with machine learning to develop and validate a predictive model for incremental hemodialysis decision-making. The aim of the predictive model is to assist clinicians in developing individualized incremental dialysis treatment plans to optimize patient outcomes.
By collecting patients' clinical and biochemical parameters and combining them with experts' judgments of dialysis timing and frequency, the model can dynamically assess patients' risk of needing to increase the frequency of dialysis, thus assisting physicians in formulating individualized incremental dialysis regimens to optimize dialysis outcomes and improve patients' prognosis.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
175
Huashan hospital, Fudan university
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
Number (Proportion) of Participants Who Experience an Incremental Dialysis Event, Assessed Monthly
An incremental dialysis event is defined as an increase in a patient's dialysis frequency (e.g., from 1 session per week to 2 sessions per week, or from 2 to 3 sessions per week, etc.) due to clinical considerations such as decreased residual renal function, fluid overload, or other physician-determined criteria. At each monthly visit (up to 5 years from enrollment), investigators will record whether each participant experiences an incremental event. We will quantify the primary outcome as the number and proportion of participants who transition to a higher dialysis frequency per month, as well as the cumulative incidence over time.
Time frame: Baseline and monthly visits from enrollment until incremental dialysis event, death, transfer, or up to 5 years (whichever occurs first)
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