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Table 1 Summary of chronic dialysis therapy in Japan, 2016

From: Annual Dialysis Data Report 2016, JSDT Renal Data Registry

Number of surveyed facilities

4396 facilities

(Increase of 16 facilities, 0.4% increase)

 Number of responded facilities

4336 facilities

(Increase of 15 facilities, 0.3% increase)

 Capacity

Number of bedside consoles

135,211 units

(Increase of 1673 units, 1.3% increase)

Capacity for simultaneous HD treatments

133,500 treatments

(Increase of 1986 patients, 1.5% increase)

Maximum capacity

444,192 patients

(Increase of 5801 patients, 1.3% increase)

Prevalent dialysis patients

329,609 patients

(Increase of 4623 patients, 1.4% increase)

Outpatients

Inpatients

Total

 Hemodialysis

Hemodialysis (HD)

215,858

(72.1)

25,827

(85.3)

241,685

(73.3)

Hemodiafiltration (HDF)

72,959

(24.4)

3877

(12.8)

76,836

(23.3)

Hemofiltration (HF)

19

(0.0)

7

(0.0)

26

(0.0)

Blood adsorption dialysis

1360

(0.5)

46

(0.2)

1406

(0.4)

Home hemodialysis

633

(0.2)

2

(0.0)

635

(0.2)

 Peritoneal dialysis (PD)

PD only

6722

(2.2)

468

(1.5)

7190

(2.2)

PD + HD 1/week

1521

(0.5)

39

(0.1)

1560

(0.5)

PD + HD 2/week

165

(0.1)

4

(0.0)

169

(0.1)

PD + HD 3/week

33

(0.0)

5

(0.0)

38

(0.0)

PD + HD other frequencies

61

(0.0)

3

(0.0)

64

(0.0)

Subtotal

8502

(2.8)

519

(1.7)

9021

(2.7)

 Total

299,331

(100.0)

30,278

(100.0)

329,609

(100.0)

 Per million of general population

2596.7 patients

(Increase of 39.7 patients)

 Patients count in the night shift

32,431 patients

Incident dialysis patients

39,344 patients

(Decrease of 118 patients, 0.3% decrease)

 Incident hemodialysis patients (including HDF)

37,398 patients

 Incident peritoneal dialysis patients

1946 patients

Deceased patients

31,790 patients

(Increase of 722 patients, 2.3% increase)

  1. The above data were obtained from the facility survey
  2. PD + HD patients patients treated by the combination of PD and HD, HDF, hemoadsorption, or hemofiltration (excluding those who underwent only peritoneal lavage)