[Comparison of quality of life in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis patients].

Quality of life is a important outcome of treatment of chronic disease. It's also a major factor to determine the selection of various modes of therapy for end-stage renal diseases (ESRD) patients. Quality of life may be influenced by some case mix factors. 17 continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients and 17 hemodialysis patients were closely matched on sex, age, initial disease, education, financial support, cormidity and marital status to compare their quality of life. There were no difference of quality of life between these two group. These results suggest that dialysis modality do not likely to exerts an independent effect on quality of life of chronic dialysis patients. It may be warrant to speed up the CAPD program due to its less expensive.