Nutritional status, survival and morbidity amongst haemodialysis patients
Collect/analyse data & write up research ready for publication
Angela Vivanti
Aims
To determine the effect of nutritional status on outcomes including mortality, morbidity and medication usage in individuals with chronic kidney disease who receive maintenance haemodialysis.
Morbidity & Mortality
- To assess the relationship of mortality and morbidity to predictor variables (including nutritional status and changes in nutritional status)
- To assess relative risk of the change in scored Malnutrition assessment (PG-SGA score) in predicting mortality
Nutritional Assessments
- To investigate associations between nutritional status and independent variables including nutrition parameters, hospital admission/readmission and medication usage (eg antibiotics, EPO).
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