Figure 1.

Percentage of pre-nephrology visit (%PNV; a visit to a nephrologist at least 1 mo before the initiation of HD was regarded as PNV) in patient level by country. Based on a point prevalent cross-section at study enrollment of patients who had been on hemodialysis (HD) ≤30 d; n = 182 in Australia/New Zealand (ANZ), n = 264 in Belgium (BE), n = 225 in Canada (CA), n = 478 in France (FR), n = 504 in Germany (GE), n = 494 in Italy (IT), n = 698 in Japan (JP), n = 571 in Spain (SP), n = 245 in Sweden (SW), n = 346 in the United Kingdom (UK), n = 4493 in the United States (US), and n = 8500 in total.