Predictors of mortality among hemodialysis patients in Hamadan Province using random survival forests
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Keywords

Hemodialysis; Kidney Failure; Survival; Random Survival Forest

Abstract

Background: Hemodialysis patients are at the high risk for morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to find out the predictors of mortality and survival in hemodialysis patients in Hamadan province.

Methods: The numbers of 785 patients during the entire 11 years were enrolled into this historical cohort study. Data were gathered by a checklist of hospital records. The survival time was the time between start of Hemodialysis treatment to patients death as the end point. Random survival forests (RSF) method was used to identify main predictors of survival among the patients.

Results: The median survival time was 613 days. The number of 376 death was occurred. The three most important predictors of survival were hemoglobin, CRP and albumin. RSF method predicted survival better than the conventional Cox-proportional hazards model (out-of-bag C-index of 0.808 for RSF vs. 0.727 for Cox model).

Conclusions: We found that higher levels of CRP, low serum albumin and low serum hemoglobin were the top three most important predictors of survival for HD patients.

https://doi.org/10.15167/2421-4248/jpmh2020.61.3.1421
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