Cochrane · systematic review · CD011457

Peritoneal dialysis for acute kidney injury

Liu, L, Zhang, L, Liu, GJ, et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2017 · Cochrane Library

Kidney and TransplantAMSTAR 2: not assessed

SoF tableOnly the outcomes this review put in its Summary of Findings table are listed (the Cochrane Handbook caps them at about seven per comparison). Its other analyses are not shown here.

Questions

current version

GRADE rated

No studies

Included studies

No studies 0 · 0%Ungraded 0 · 0%Very low 3 · 42.9%Low 2 · 28.6%Moderate 2 · 28.6%High 0 · 0%

Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.

Questions and results

Peritoneal dialysis compared with haemodialysis for acute kidney injury

Population: patients with acute kidney injury

7 questions

Outcome	Effect	Evidence	Status / GRADE
All‐cause mortality Peritoneal dialysis vs haemodialysis	RR 1.12 [0.81, 1.55]	4 studies · 383 participants	Moderate Downgraded: risk of bias
Recovery of kidney function Peritoneal dialysis vs haemodialysis	RR 1.42 [0.74, 2.75]	3 studies · 333 participants	Moderate Downgraded: risk of bias
Weekly delivered Kt/V Peritoneal dialysis vs haemodialysis	no estimate extracted	2 studies · 263 participants	Very low Downgraded: risk of bias
Correction of acidosis Peritoneal dialysis vs haemodialysis	RR 1.32 [0.1, 13.6]	2 studies · 120 participants	Very low Downgraded: risk of bias
Fluid removal (L/d) Peritoneal dialysis vs haemodialysis	no estimate extracted	3 studies · 313 participants	Low Downgraded: risk of bias
Duration of dialysis (hours) Peritoneal dialysis vs haemodialysis	no estimate extracted	2 studies · 170 participants	Very low Downgraded: risk of bias
Infectious complications Peritoneal dialysis vs haemodialysis	RR 1.03 [0.6, 1.78]	2 studies · 263 participants	Low Downgraded: risk of bias