Background: Chronic kidney disease, a global health problem, leads to end-stage whose treatment requires long-term renal replacement therapy. The incidence of hemodialysis patients with disease is increasing worldwide. survival rate crucial for decision-making and planning. Objectives: This study aimed determine the its related factors using competing risk analysis approach acquire more precise...

BACKGROUND In studies of all-cause mortality, the fundamental epidemiological concepts of rate and risk are connected through a well-defined one-to-one relation. An important consequence of this relation is that regression models such as the proportional hazards model that are defined through the hazard (the rate) immediately dictate how the covariates relate to the survival function (the risk)...