Table 2.

Implementation rates of disaster preparedness broken down by item and domains.

Items regarding disaster preparedness	Implementation rate1	Rate of missing values
Patient
Supervising check dry weight	48.9	0.0
Disseminating means of communication to the facility at the time of disaster	56.9	0.0
Disseminating dietary management at the time when dialysis interval is longer	31.2	1.9
Disseminating a contact address when people who cannot evacuate by themselves want to evacuate	14.8	1.9
Disseminating information regarding how to check whether the facility is open or not at the time a disaster	41.7	2.1
Disseminating a backup system when the facility does not work due to a disaster	19.6	2.1
Disseminating the way patients behave when a disaster happens during a dialysis session	41.9	2.1
Disseminating procedures, routes, and places of evacuation in the facility	32.4	2.1
Encouraging the identification of an evacuation place in advance	36.0	2.1
Securing the way of communication with their patients	59.8	0.0
Average implementation rates of items in the patient domain	38.4	2.1
Administration
Establishing a committee of disaster preparedness and discussing regularly	50.6	0.2
Making a manual for disaster preparedness and revising it	57.3	0.0
Assigning roles to staff at the time of a disaster	52.8	2.1
Conducting annual disaster drills for the staff and ensuring the assignment of roles	59.6	2.3
Disseminating information regarding how to handle withdrawal from dialysis at the time of disaster	85.8	2.1
Checking regularly whether the contact network system among the staff is working	48.1	0.2
Preparing an emergency kit and being ready to use it	54.5	2.1
Keeping goods for disaster preparedness in an accessible place for the staff	53.2	2.1
Average implementation rate of items in the administration domain	57.9	2.3
Network
Discussing securing power and water supply at the time of disaster with related organizations	47.8	0.4
Securing multiple means of communication at the time of a disaster	75.2	0.2
Concluding an agreement about the supply of medicines and equipment at the time of disaster with related organizations	30.1	0.4
Concluding an agreement about mutual help at the time of a disaster with other facilities	55.6	0.8
Understanding levels of emergency supplies of power and water at the time of a disaster from related organizations	31.9	0.6
Average implementation rate of items in the networks domain	48.3	0.8
Safety
Using a flexible tube in joint parts to fix the dialysis supply system and reverse osmosis membrane system on wall	86.2	0.4
Checking the buildings in the facility from points of view of disaster preparedness	84.1	0.2
Fall prevention of items and stopping the placement of seats and beds under places with potential dangers of falling objects	83.5	0.6
Fixing large medical equipment and putting them on an isolation device to prevent falling and shaking	73.5	0.8
Average implementation rate of items in the safety domain	81.8	0.8

¹Implementation rates were calculated after excluding cases with missing values for each item. Please refer to the Methods section for further details.