Table 1 Summary of chronic dialysis therapy in Japan, 2018*
Number of surveyed facilities | 4458 facilities | (increase of 45 facilities,1.0% increase) | |||||
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Number of responded facilities | 4402 facilities | (increase of 42 facilities,1.0% increase) | |||||
Capacity | Number of bedside consoles | 139,887 units | (increase of 2639 units,1.9% increase) | ||||
Capacity for simultaneous HD treatments | 138,155 treatments | (increase of 2519 patients,1.9% increase) | |||||
Maximum capacity | 458,597 patients | (increase of 7759 patients, 1.7% increase) | |||||
Prevalent dialysis patients | 339,841 patients | (increase of 5336 patients, 1.6% increase) | |||||
Outpatients | Inpatients | Total | |||||
Hemodialysis | Hemodialysis (HD) | 177,718 | (57.6) | 24,704 | (79.4) | 202,422 | (59.6) |
Hemodiafiltration (HDF) | 119,959 | (38.9) | 5,834 | (18.8) | 125,793 | (37.0) | |
Hemofiltration (HF) | 11 | (0.0) | 3 | (0.0) | 14 | (0.0) | |
Blood adsorption dialysis | 1401 | (0.5 ) | 46 | (0.1) | 1,447 | (0.4) | |
Home hemodialysis | 703 | (0.2 ) | 17 | (0.1) | 720 | (0.2) | |
Peritoneal dialysis | PD only | 7140 | (2.3) | 442 | (1.4) | 7,582 | (2.2) |
PD + HD 1/week | 1583 | (0.5) | 38 | (0.1) | 1,621 | (0.5) | |
PD + HD 2/week | 136 | (0.0) | 6 | (0.0) | 142 | (0.0) | |
PD + HD 3/week | 26 | (0.0) | 4 | (0.0) | 30 | (0.0) | |
PD + HD other frequencies | 68 | (0.0) | 2 | (0.0) | 70 | (0.0) | |
Subtotal | 8953 | (2.9) | 492 | (1.6) | 9,445 | (2.8) | |
Total | 308,745 | (100.0) | 31,096 | (100.0 ) | 339,841 | (100.0) | |
Per million of general population | 2687.7 patients | (increase of 47.7 patients) | |||||
Patients count in the night shift | 31544 patients | ||||||
Incident dialysis patients | 40,468 patients | (decrease of 491 patients,1.2% decrease) | |||||
Incident hemodialysis patients (including HDF) | 38,175 patients | ||||||
Incident peritoneal dialysis patients | 2293 patients | ||||||
Deceased patients | 33,863 patients | (increase of 1331 patients, 4.0% increase) | |||||