The Kidney Outcomes Prediction and Evaluation (KOPE) Study: A Prospective Cohort Investigation of Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis

Psychosocial characteristics and self-reported functional status in patients on maintenance dialysis in Hungary

“…Diabetes affected were 1/3 of our pa tients, similarly to other European studies [23,29] but substantially less than in the US [30]. The proportion of patients with the his tory of AMI and cerebrovascular diseases was almost twice as high in our sample than in France or Spain [23,29], but similar to that reported in the US [25,30]. However, the differences in these proportions must be viewed with caution, as they may be related to different disease definitions or methods of data ascertainment and collection.…”

“…These conditions adversely affect functional status and HRQoL and are not ful ly corrected (if at all) by dialysis [10]. Due to the advanced age of the study sample and high proportion of preexistent comorbidities, the functional status was moderately affect ed, consistent with previous findings [23,26,30]. A substantial number of the participants reported moderate or severe mobility, vi sual or hearing impairments and almost half of the population reported that they needed help with even basic activities of daily liv ing.…”

Correlates of Sleep Behavior among Hemodialysis Patients

“…The design and methods of the KOPE study have been previously described [21]. Briefly, KOPE was a study of adult patients receiving chronic hemodialysis therapy at the Piedmont Dialysis Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., or at one of three participating satellite dialysis units.…”

“…In parallel, all new hemodialysis patients (or incident cases) were identified and enrolled over a 3-year period (n = 162). 1 Information regarding the representativeness of the KOPE data are presented elsewhere [21].…”