Pressure Ulcer Diagnosis Is Associated with Increased Mortality in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease: A Retrospective Study

Pressure ulcers are associated with multiple comorbidities and annually affect approximately 3 million Americans, directly accounting for 60,000 deaths per year. Because patients end-stage renal disease (ESRD) known to present unique factors which impair wound healing, pressure diagnosed in ESRD might independently increase the risk of mortality. To investigate association between ulcer diagnosis mortality population, a retrospective analysis United States Renal Data System (USRDS) database was performed. The records 1,526,366 dialysis who began therapy 1 January 2005 31 December 2018 were included. Our showed that this population even after controlling confounding (p < 0.001). A Kaplan–Meier survival demonstrated reduced compared those without diagnosis. These results establish as significant independent factor mortality, well suggesting several potential population.