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Parenthood and pregnancy in Australians receiving treatment for end-stage kidney disease: protocol of a national study of perinatal and parental outcomes through population record linkage by Hewawasam, Erandi; Gulyani, Aarti; Davies, Christopher E; Sullivan, Elizabeth; Wark, Sally; Clayton, Philip A; McDonald, Stephen P; Jesudason, Shilpanjali is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

## Introduction Achieving parenthood is challenging in individuals receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT; dialysis or kidney transplantation) for end-stage kidney disease. Decision-making regarding parenthood in RRT recipients should be underpinned by robust data, yet there is limited data on parental factors that drive adverse health outcomes. Therefore, we aim to investigate the perinatal risks and outcomes in parents receiving RRT. ## Methods and analysis This is a multijurisdictional probabilistic data linkage study of perinatal, hospital, birth, death and renal registers from 1991 to 2013 from New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. This study includes all babies born ≥20 weeks’ gestation or 400 g birth weight captured through mandated data collection in the perinatal data sets. Through linkage with the Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) registry, babies exposed to RRT (and their parents) will be compared with babies who have not been exposed to RRT (and their parents) to determine obstetric and fetal outcomes, birth rates and fertility rates. One of the novel aspects of this study is the method tha

Author

Hewawasam, Erandi; Gulyani, Aarti; Davies, Christopher E; Sullivan, Elizabeth; Wark, Sally; Clayton, Philip A; McDonald, Stephen P; Jesudason, Shilpanjali

Publisher

BMJ; BMJ Publishing Group; London: BMJ Publishing (ISSN 2044-6055)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)