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Patients receiving CAPD may develop peritonitis or exit site or tunnel infections, or have catheter malfunctions which are sufficiently severe or persistent to require hospitalization. Such hospitalizations add to the overall cost of CAPD and could adversely affect its acceptability.
The material contained in this report has been published as follow: Nolph KD, Cutler SJ, Steinberg SM, Novak JW, Hirschman GH. Factors associated with morbidity and mortality among patients on CAPD. Trans Am Soc Artif Intern Organs 33: 57–65, 1987.
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Lindblad, A.S., Novak, J.W., Nolph, K.D. (1989). Factors Associated with First Hospitalization for CAPD-Related Complications. In: Lindblad, A.S., Novak, J.W., Nolph, K.D. (eds) Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis in the USA. Developments in Nephrology, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0931-1_18
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