Profile and outcome of patients with emergency complications of renal failure presenting to an urban emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Tanzania

Table 3 Factors influencing access to dialysis (n = 142)

	Total	Dialyzed	Not Dialyzed	Multivariate Logistic Regression
	N = 142	N = 61	N = 81	Multivariate Logistic Regression
Age categories
< 30	25	15 [60]	10 [40]
30–54	63	28 [44.4]	35 [55.6]	0.7[0.2–2.3]
55+	54	18 [33.3]	36 [66.7]	0.2[0.1–0.9]
Total	142	61 [43]	81 [57]
Mode of payment
Insured	37	20 [54.1]	17[45.9]
Out of pocket	105	41 [39]	64[61]	0.3[0.1–0.9]
Total	142	61 [43]	81[57]
Creatinine (umol/L)
< 700	32	11[34.4]	21[65.6]
700–1200	33	13[39.4]	20[60.6]	1.3[0.3–5.4]
1201+	68	32[47.1]	36[52.9]	2.0[0.6–6.8]
Total	133	56[42.1]	77[57.9]
Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN) (mmol/L)
< 20	18	9 [50]	9[50]
20+	112	47[42]	65[58]	0.5[0.1–1.9]
Total	130	56[43.1]	74[56.9]
Potassium (mmol/L)
< 7	102	46[45.1]	56[54.9]
7+	20	8[40]	12[60]	1.1[0.3–3.5]
Total	122	54[44.3]	68[55.7]

4 participants who were lost to follow-up and 4 other patients who died at ED were not included in the analysis

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