An Overview of Regular Dialysis Treatment in Japan (as of 31 December 2001)1

: Questionnaire forms for an annual survey conducted at the end of 2001 were sent out to 3520 institutions, and 3485 replies were received (response rate, 99.00%). According to the survey, the dialysis population of Japan at year end was 219 183 patients, up 6.3% (13 049) over the year before. This equals 1721.9 dialysis patients per million population. The gross mortality rate was 9.3% for the year extending from the end of 2000 to the end of...