Table 1.
Effect of lockdown on dialysis patients during the COVID-19 pandemic
| Characteristics | Hospitals |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Government n = 972 | Private n = 1545 | Total n = 2517 | |
| No. of dialysis stations before lockdown | 209 | 314 | 523 |
| No. of dialysis stations after lockdown | 200 | 296 | 496 |
| No. of maintenance dialysis patients | |||
| Before lockdown | 972 | 1545 | 2517 |
| After lockdown | 928 | 1476 | 2404 |
| Patients missing 1 or more HD sessions due to lockdown, n (%) | 419 (47.25) | 291 (18.83) | 710 (28.20) |
| Missing HD with information to HD unit | 198 (20.37) | 133 (8.6) | 331 (13.15) |
| Missing HD without information to HD unit | 105 (10.8) | 84 (5.4) | 189 (7.51) |
| Patients for whom doctors decreased the frequency of HD | 47 (4.83) | 30 (1.94) | 77 (3.06) |
| Permanently missing HD until end of lockdown | 63 (6.48) | 41 (2.65) | 104 (4.13) |
| Death | 06 (0.62) | 03 (0.19) | 09 (0.36) |
| Patients requiring emergency dialysis, n (%) | 33 (3.39) | 36 (2.33) | 69 (2.74) |
| No. of centers facilitating patients’ arrival to HD unit | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| PD patients | |||
| No. of PD patients | 496 | 141 | 637 |
COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; HD, hemodialysis; PD, peritoneal dialysis.