Table 1 Summary of chronic dialysis therapy in Japan, 2019
From: Annual dialysis data report 2019, JSDT Renal Data Registry
(a) Facility number and dialysis capacity | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Facility number and dialysis capacity | Number | Changes from the previous year (%) | |
Surveyed faciliteis | 4487 | +Â 29 (+Â 0.7) | |
Responded facilities | 4411 | +Â 9 (+Â 0.2) | |
Dialysis capacity | Number of bedside machines | 141,520 | +Â 1,633 (+Â 1.2) |
Capacity for simultaneous HD treatments | 139,839 | +Â 1,684 (+Â 1.2) | |
Maximum patient capacity | 464,615 | +Â 6,018 (+Â 1.3) | |
(b) Patient dynamics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Patient category | Number | Changes from the previous year (%) | |
Prevalent patients | 344,640 | +Â 4799 (+Â 1.4) | |
  Prevalence rate (per million of general population) | 2731.6 | + 43.9 (+ 1.6) | |
  Patients in the night shift | 32,027 | + 483 (+ 1.5) | |
Incident patients | 40,885 | +Â 417 (+Â 1.0) | |
  Started with HD or HDF | 38,228 | + 53 (+ 0.1) | |
  Started with PD | 2657 | + 364 (+ 15.9) | |
Deceased patients | 34,642 | +Â 779 (2.3) | |
(c) Numbers of prevalent dialysis patients by modality | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Modality | Outpatients (%) | Inpatients (%) | Total (%) | ||||
Hemodialysis | HD | 163,900 | (52.3) | 23838 | (75.6) | 187,738 | (54.5) |
HDF | 137,552 | (43.9) | 7134 | (22.6) | 144,686 | (42.0) | |
HF | 19 | (0.0) | 12 | (0.0) | 31 | (0.0) | |
HAD | 1425 | (0.5) | 80 | (0.3) | 1505 | (0.4) | |
Home HD | 754 | (0.2) | 6 | (0.0) | 760 | (0.2) | |
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) | PD only | 7647 | (2.4) | 370 | (1.2) | 8017 | (2.3) |
PD + HD 1x/week | 1620 | (0.5) | 55 | (0.2) | 1675 | (0.5) | |
PD + HD 2x/week | 122 | (0.0) | 6 | (0.0) | 128 | (0.0) | |
PD + HD 3x/week | 24 | (0.0) | 6 | (0.0) | 30 | (0.0) | |
PD + HD other frequencies | 63 | (0.0) | 7 | (0.0) | 70 | (0.0) | |
Subtotal | 9476 | (3.0) | 444 | (1.4) | 9920 | (2.9) | |
Total | 313,126 | (100.0) | (31,514) | (100.0)) | 344,640 | (100.0)) | |