Attainment of clinical performance targets and improvement in clinical outcomes and resource use in hemodialysis care: a prospective cohort study.

Increasing numbers of targets attained were also associated, in a graded fashion, with decreased mortality ( P = 0.030), fewer hospital admissions and days ( P < 0.001 for both), and lower costs ( P = 0.029); these trends remained statistically significant for all outcomes after adjustment ( P < 0.001), except cost, which was marginally significant ( P = 0.052).

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There was also a highly significant trend toward decreased incidence with more targets attained.

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When all five targets were examined, a significant trend of decreased incidence of hospitalization with each additional target attained was seen (Table 3 ).

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