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Table 6 Number and proportion of patients with complete and partial year costs by year

From: Do remote dialysis services really cost more? An economic analysis of hospital and dialysis modality costs associated with dialysis services in urban, rural and remote settings

Year of study and patient numbers

2008 (n = 474)

2009 (n = 483)

2010 (n = 511)

2011 (n = 548)

2012 (n = 587)

2013 (n = 621)

2014 (n = 647)

Patients with complete year costs n (%)

327 (69%)

363 (75%)

388 (76%)

404 (74%)

431 (73%)

448 (72%)

439 (68%)

Part year costs due to

 Incident

80 (17%)

62 (13%)

64 (12%)

79 (14%)

89 (15%)

94 (15%)

92 (14%)

 Death

48 (10%)

34 (7%)

39 (8%)

37 (7%)

43 (7%)

42 (7%)

58 (9%)

 Withdrewd

5 (1%)

10 (2%)

5 (1%)

7 (1%)

2 (0%)

10 (%1)

9 (1%)

 LTFUb

1 (0%)

1 (0%)

0 (0%)

6 (1%)

5 (1%)

14 (3%)

43 (7%)

 iLTFUa including Txc

13 (3%)

13 (3%)

15 (3%)

15 (3%)

17 (4%)

13 (2%)

6 (1%)

  1. aiLTFU Intermittent Loss to follow up, bLTFU Loss to follow up, cTx Transplantation, dWithdrew: palliated