50.0% at Capital Coast and Southern. Incident vascular access (all patients Only Capital Coast and Southern starting dialysis) achieved the national standard of 50% The national incidence of permanent of patients commencing vascular access at commencement of haemodialysis with permanent dialysis remained highly variable vascular access. across treating DHBs (Figure 14). As in previous years, very few DHBs The proportion of all patients starting achieved the national standard of haemodialysis with permanent access permanent vascular access, indicating (either a fistula or graft) ranged the need to review practices between 17.7% at Hawkes Bay and throughout the country.
Incident vascular access (all patients starting dialysis) The national incidence of permanent vascular access at commencement of dialysis remained highly variable across treating DHBs (Figure 14). The proportion of all patients starting haemodialysis with permanent access (either a fistula or graft) ranged between 17.7% at Hawkes Bay and 50.0% at Capital Coast and Southern. Only Capital Coast and Southern achieved the national standard of 50% of patients commencing haemodialysis with permanent vascular access. As in previous years, very few DHBs achieved the national standard of permanent vascular access, indicating the need to review practices throughout the country.
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