TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Hospitalization and Home Hemodialysis A1 - Weinhandl, Eric A2 - Knicely, Daphne H. A2 - Abdel-Rahman, Emaad M. A2 - Greenberg, Keiko I. PY - 2021 T2 - Handbook of Home Hemodialysis AB - Hospitalization remains one of the greatest burdens in the dialysis patient population. According to the United States Renal Data System (USRDS), the rate of hospital admission in dialysis patients with Medicare fee-for-service coverage during 2017 was 1750 admissions per 1000 patient-years. Although this rate of hospital admissions is modestly lower than the corresponding rate 15 years earlier, it has exhibited little movement during the most recent 5 years of data collection. With respect to cumulative duration of hospitalization, the rate of hospitalized days in dialysis patients with Medicare fee-for-service coverage in 2017 was 11.2 days per patient-year. Interestingly, this rate translates to roughly 45 hospitalized minutes per calendar day. From that perspective, the human toll of hospitalization on dialysis patients and their families is plainly evident.1 SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/15 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1178969936 ER -