Patients and newly diagnosed patients who need dialysis or kidney transplantation show a growing tendency owing to an increase in ageing population and chronic diseases. According to the Korean data, it was reported that hemodialysis patients are 52,378 persons (87.4%) and peritoneal dialysis patients are 7,540 persons (12.6%) in 2013. 

Although end-stage renal dialysis causes the huge burden in Korea, there is still a controversy in dialysis modality selection. Therefore, it is necessary to comparatively examine the trends in dialysis, medical expenses and clinical effectiveness of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.

We provide scientific evidence regarding the choice of dialysis methods on the basis of the outcome such as clinical effectiveness, medical expenses, and quality of life in accordance with the dialysis methods in patients with end-stage renal dialysis.