Prioritizing Skills for Optimal Peritoneal Dialysis Care: A Focus Beyond Specialty

Authors' Reply: Prioritizing Skills for Optimal Peritoneal Dialysis Care: A Focus Beyond Specialty

“…We thank Dr. Sahutoglu for the interest in our study. 1 Although we agree that individual-level operator proficiency in the placement of peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheters is important, a study of individual skills would not yield actionable results for the field as a whole, and hence, our research question was focused on aggregate outcomes of operators who may have different levels of training and familiarity with PD catheter placements. We also note that Figure 2 in the manuscript shows operator-level probability of a second procedure and does provide an overview of the spread of the probability of complication rates across individual operators included in our study.…”