TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimated number of patients with chronic renal failure but not with end-stage renal disease in japan
T2 - comparisons between two estimation methods
AU - Wakai, Kenji
AU - Nakai, Shigeru
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - We estimated the number of patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) but not with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in Japan by two methods: a nationwide survey and an estimation using incidence rates of ESRD among CRF patients as well as the number of incident ESRD. The former estimated the number of patients with CRF but not with ESRD as 154,000 (95% confidence interval 139,000-168,000), while so did the latter as 142,000 (133,000-150,000). It follows that the number of CRF patients including ESRD could amount to more than 300,000, which would give a substantial impact on public health in Japan. Despite some own methodological issues in estimation, the two estimates were reasonably in good agreement: supporting their methodological validity in estimation, since sources of errors appeared to be quite independent of each other. chronic renal failure, number of patients, nationwide survey, end-stage renal disease (ESRD), Japan.
AB - We estimated the number of patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) but not with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in Japan by two methods: a nationwide survey and an estimation using incidence rates of ESRD among CRF patients as well as the number of incident ESRD. The former estimated the number of patients with CRF but not with ESRD as 154,000 (95% confidence interval 139,000-168,000), while so did the latter as 142,000 (133,000-150,000). It follows that the number of CRF patients including ESRD could amount to more than 300,000, which would give a substantial impact on public health in Japan. Despite some own methodological issues in estimation, the two estimates were reasonably in good agreement: supporting their methodological validity in estimation, since sources of errors appeared to be quite independent of each other. chronic renal failure, number of patients, nationwide survey, end-stage renal disease (ESRD), Japan.
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U2 - 10.2188/jea.8.278
DO - 10.2188/jea.8.278
M3 - Article
C2 - 9884477
AN - SCOPUS:0032247396
SN - 0917-5040
VL - 8
SP - 278
EP - 284
JO - Journal of epidemiology
JF - Journal of epidemiology
IS - 5
ER -