Table 1 Summary of chronic dialysis therapy in Japan, 2020
From: Annual dialysis data report 2020, JSDT renal data registry
(a) Number of facilities and dialysis capacity | ||
|---|---|---|
Number of facilities and dialysis capacity | Number | Changes from previous year (%) |
Surveyed facilities | 4493 | +6 (+0.1) |
Responding facilities | 4437 | +26 (+0.6) |
Dialysis capacity | ||
Number of bedside machines | 143,772 | +2252 (+1.6) |
Capacity for simultaneous HD treatments | 141,752 | +1913 (+1.4) |
Maximum patient capacity | 472,531 | +7916 (+1.7) |
(b) Patient dynamics | ||
|---|---|---|
Patient category | Number | Changes from previous year (%) |
Prevalent patients | 347,671 | +3031 (+0.9) |
Prevalence rate (per million of general population) | 2754.3 | +22.7 |
Patients on nocturnal dialysis | 31,468 | −559 |
Incident patients | 40,744 | −141 (−0.3) |
Started on HD or HDF | 38,263 | |
Started on PD | 2481 | |
Deceased patients | 34,414 | −228 (−0.7) |
(c) Numbers of prevalent dialysis patients by modality | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Modality | Outpatients (%) | Inpatients (%) | Total (%) | ||||
HD | HD | 149,082 | (47.0) | 22,242 | (72.5) | 171,324 | (49.3) |
HDF | 155,782 | (49.0) | 8,043 | (26.2) | 163,825 | (47.1) | |
HF | 10 | (0.0) | 4 | (0.0) | 14 | (0.0) | |
HAD | 1369 | (0.4) | 50 | (0.2) | 1419 | (0.4) | |
Home HD | 750 | (0.2) | 1 | (0.0) | 751 | (0.2) | |
PD | PD only | 7916 | (2.5) | 272 | (0.9) | 8188 | (2.4) |
PD + HD 1×/week | 1839 | (0.6) | 43 | (0.1) | 1882 | (0.5) | |
PD + HD 2×/week | 161 | (0.1) | 4 | (0.0) | 165 | (0.0) | |
PD + HD 3×/week | 30 | (0.0) | 1 | (0.0) | 31 | (0.0) | |
PD + HD other frequencies | 65 | (0.0) | 7 | (0.0) | 72 | (0.0) | |
Total | 317,004 | (100.0) | 30,667 | (100.0) | 347,671 | (100.0) | |