Renal replacement Therapy in Saskat chewan: A population based analysis
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Abstract
Aim: Chronic kidney disease is a critical condition with considerable public health implications. It affects a significant proportion of the general population and when progressive, has an increasing influence on morbidity and mortality. The main purpose of this study was to explore the distribution and trends of renal replacement therapy and vascular access practice patterns among Saskatchewan end stage renal disease patients. Material and Method: This is a registry-based retrospective observational study. Prevalence of patient’s on renal replacement therapy in the Canadian Organ Replacement Register who has information for renal replacement therapy from 2006 to 2016 in the province of Saskatchewan. The composite of demographics, mortality, type of renal replacement therapy, type of vascular access and important blood markers ranges were recorded among both haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients. Results: From 2006 through 2016, a total of 2103 patients with mean age of 69.52±13.2 initiated renal replacement therapy in Saskatchewan. Among those patients, over half of the patients were female (62%). Majority of the patients were Caucasians and Aboriginals. Nearly two third of them were overweight and obese. Less than half developed end stage renal diseases secondary to diabetes and 14.9% had a primary diagnosis of glomerulonephritis. At the end of 2015, prevalence of end-stage kidney disease patients was 1330 in the Saskatchewan. During 2006 to 2016, 72.3% received haemodialysis, 22.8% received peritoneal dialysis, and, catheter was the most frequently used dialysis access method (64.6%). Conclusion: An increasing number of patients with advanced renal disease are being initiated on long-term dialysis every year. Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are the two main types of dialysis provided under renal care programs. Alarmingly, in Saskatchewan, catheter was the most frequently used dialysis access method. Keywords: End Stage Renal Disease; Renal Replacement Therapy; Vascular Access; Saskatchewan.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".