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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2016 May 22;388(10041):294–306. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30448-2

Figure 5. Selected practices or measures in incident haemodialysis patients, by country (2012–15).

Figure 5

(A) Type of vascular access used in patients on dialysis ≤60 days at Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) enrolment. (B) Timing of first nephrology care before dialysis initiation in patients on dialysis ≤60 days at DOPPS enrolment; on the basis of responses to the question, “How many months before start of chronic dialysis did the patient first see a nephrologist?”, collected at enrolment. (C) Estimated glomerular filtration rate just before patients started haemodialysis. Some countries are omitted from some figures because of missing data.Figure reproduced from Pisoni and colleagues,70 by permission of Elsevier. AV=arteriovenous. GCC=Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates).