Tomotaka Naramura, Toru Hyodo, Kenichi Kokubo, Hirokazu Matsubara, Haruki Wakai, Fumitaka Nakajima, Nobuhisa Shibahara, Kazunari Yoshida, Yoshinori Komaru, Hideki Kawanishi, Akio Kawamura, Hideo Hidai, Shingo Takesawa
BACKGROUND: The number of dialysis patients has been increasing in Southeast Asia, but statistical data about these patients and on the quality of dialysates in Southeast Asian dialysis facilities are still imprecise. For this study, dialysis-related statistical data were collected in Southeast Asia. METHODS: A survey of the quality of dialysates was carried out at 4 dialysis facilities in Vietnam and Cambodia. The dialysis patient survey included the numbers of dialysis facilities and patients receiving dialysis, a ranking of underlying diseases causing the initiation of dialysis, the number of patients receiving hemodialysis (HD)/on-line hemodiafiltration/continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, the number of HD monitoring devices installed, the cost of each session of dialysis (in USD), the percentage of out-of-pocket payments, and the 1-year survival rates of the dialysis patients (in percent)...
January 2014: Nephron Extra