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Its progression involves multiple intermediate stages, making conventional survival models inadequate for capturing the complexity of disease transitions. This study aimed to model chronic kidney disease progression using a continuous-time multistate Markov process to evaluate stage-specific transition dynamics and the effects of clinical and demographic factors. A retrospective cohort study of 194 patients with chronic kidney disease, comprising 1506 clinic visits at Jimma Medical Center between February 2019 and February 2024, was conducted. The multistate Markov framework was used to estimate transition intensities, transition probabilities, mean sojourn times, and next-state probabilities and to assess the effects of clinical and demographic characteristics on transitions between chronic kidney disease stages. 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