Table 1 Summary of chronic dialysis therapy in Japan, 2015
From: Annual Dialysis Data Report 2015, JSDT Renal Data Registry
Number of facilities | 4321 facilities | (Decrease of 9 facilities, 0.2% decrease) | |||||
Equipment | Number of bedside consoles | 133,538 units | (Increase of 1983 units, 1.5% increase) | ||||
Capacity | Capacity for simultaneous HD treatments | 131,514 treatments | (Increase of 1654 patients, 1.3% increase) | ||||
Maximum capacity | 438,391 patients | (Increase of 5958 patients, 1.4% increase) | |||||
Outpatients | Inpatients | Total | |||||
Hemodialysis | Hemodialysis (HD) | 231,835 | (78.5) | 26,539 | (89.6) | 258,374 | (79.5) |
Hemodiafiltration (HDF) | 52,757 | (17.9) | 2576 | (8.7) | 55,333 | (17.0) | |
Hemofiltration (HF) | 11 | (0.0) | 6 | (0.0) | 17 | (0.0) | |
Blood adsorption dialysis | 1344 | (0.5) | 24 | (0.1) | 1368 | (0.4) | |
Home hemodialysis | 569 | (0.2) | 3 | (0.0) | 572 | (0.2) | |
Peritoneal dialysis | PD only | 7030 | (2.4) | 430 | (1.5) | 7460 | (2.3) |
PD + HD 1/week | 1541 | (0.5) | 35 | (0.1) | 1576 | (0.5) | |
PD + HD 2/week | 177 | (0.1) | 8 | (0.0) | 185 | (0.1) | |
PD + HD 3/week | 27 | (0.0) | 3 | (0.0) | 30 | (0.0) | |
PD + HD other frequencies | 68 | (0.0) | 3 | (0.0) | 71 | (0.0) | |
Total prevalent dialysis patients | 295,359 | (100.0) | 29,627 | (100.0) | 324,986 | (100.0) | |
Per million of general population | 2592.4 patients (increase of 75.1 patients) | ||||||
Prevalent patients receiving dialysis at 5 p.m. or later | 33,370 patients | ||||||
Incident hemodialysis patients (including HDF) | 37,265 patients | ||||||
Incident peritoneal dialysis patients | 2197 patients | ||||||
Incident dialysis patients | 39,462 patients (increase of 1135 patients, 3.0% increase) | ||||||
Deceased patients | 31,068 patients | (Increase of 361 patients, 1.2% increase) | |||||