The secondary aims of the follow-up study include:
(i) To assess the primary reasons patients did not transition to home dialysis, in the planned home dialysis group.
(ii)To compare 3 and 5 year survival rates among patients who commenced conservative care and patients who commenced renal replacement therapy.
(iii) To assess the types of dialysis utilisation over a 5 year time period among the total cohort of patients.
(iv)To determine how renal palliative care services were engaged for conservative care patients, and document the patient's place of death (i.e. hospital, hospice, home with community palliative care).
