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. 2021 Mar 19;118(11):195-196.
doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2021.0160.

COVID-19 Prevalence and Mortality in Chronic Dialysis Patients

Elion Hoxha, Anna Suling, Jan Eric Turner, Marion Haubitz, Jürgen Floege, Tobias B Huber, Jan-Christoph Galle

COVID-19 Prevalence and Mortality in Chronic Dialysis Patients

Elion Hoxha et al. Dtsch Arztebl Int. .
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Figure 1
COVID-19 prevalence in long-term DDPs in every calendar week (with LOCF replacement of missing values) DDP, dialysis-dependent patients; LOCF, last observation carried forward
Figure 2
Figure 2
Lethality of DDPs with COVID-19 (based on the number of DDPs with COVID-19; blue) and mortality of DDPs with COVID-19 (based on the total number of DDPs reported weekly; red); analyses were carried out for each calendar week (with LOCF replacement of missing values). DDP, dialysis-dependent patients; LOCF, last observation carried forward
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