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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: Placing the longer dialysis catheters was associated with an increased average dialyzer life span of 6. 5 hours (24 hours [25th-75th percentile, 11-32] vs 17. 5 hours [25th-75th percentile, 8-23] ; P = 0. 001), improved delivered daily dialysis dose (91 % [25th-75th percentile, 85 % -100 %] vs 81 % [25th-75th percentile, 72 % -97 %] ; P < 0. 001), and reduced number of dialyzers clotted (2. 3 vs 3. 6 ; P = 0. 04) or circuits taken down due to vascular access problem (0. 19 vs 0. 53 ; P = 0. 04) per patient compared with placing shorter dialysis catheters.