Abstract
Chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD) for children in Singapore was instituted in 1988 at the National University Hospital with adult nurses providing dialysis services during the first 10 years. In 1998, a specialist pediatric dialysis nursing team was recruited. This study was conducted to determine the impact of dialysis nursing service on PD-related outcomes during the two nursing periods. Comparing the adult (group 1) and pediatric (group 2) nursing periods, the peritonitis rate was significantly higher in group 1 (RR 1.90; 95%CI 1.27–2.84), and this association did not weaken after adjusting for age, gender, and exit site infections. Exit site infection rate (RR 2.16; 95%CI 1.44–3.23), risk of peritonitis during the first year (RR 3.65; 95%CI 1.68–7.90), and multiple peritonitis attacks (RR 2.45; 95%CI 1.32–4.55) were higher in group 1. The peritonitis rates for adult patients cared for by the same adult nurses declined sharply from 1.05 episodes per patient-year between 1989 and 1992 to 0.41 episodes per patient-year between 1995 and 1997, however the corresponding pediatric rates did not change (1.48 to 1.06 episodes per patient-year, respectively) until the second era when specialized pediatric nurses were available. In conclusion, establishment of a specialist pediatric dialysis nursing team resulted in significant improvement in infection-related PD outcomes.
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W.D. Vindya N. Gunasekara, Kar-Hui Ng, Yiong-Huak Chan, and Hui-Kim Yap contributed equally to this work. This paper was presented in part at the 12th Annual Pediatric Dialysis Symposium and 21st Annual Dialysis Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2001.
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Gunasekara, W.D.V.N., Ng, KH., Chan, YH. et al. Specialist pediatric dialysis nursing improves outcomes in children on chronic peritoneal dialysis. Pediatr Nephrol 25, 2141–2147 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-010-1581-3
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