Table 2.

Studies/experiences describing use of PD during the pandemic

Study	Participants	Design	Result
Italian Society of Nephrology COVID Survey 2020	4139 chronic PD patients	Observational	Incidence of COVID-19 in PD patient was lower than HD patient (1.38 versus 3.55%)
Jiang et al., China 2020	818 chronic PD patients	Observational	Incidence of symptomatic COVID-19 in PD patient was close to that of the general population
Ronco et al., Veneto 2020	130 chronic PD patients	Observational	PD allow to have a significant lower rate of COVID-19 infections
Alfano et al., Modena 2020	2 chronic PD patients	Observational	PD is the preferred RRT in ESRD
Cairns et al., Kings College Hospital, London 2020	32 AKI patients	Observational	27 AKI PD treated successfully No complications were recorded
Naljayan et al., Louisiana State University School of Medicine 2020	18 AKI patients	Observational	12 on AKI-PD 2 discharged to an outpatient PD unit 1 recovered renal function 3 died