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. 2024 Apr 1;5(4):615-617.
doi: 10.34067/KID.0000000000000385. Epub 2024 Feb 6.

Delivering Dialysis during Wartime: The Israeli Experience

Keren Cohen-Hagai  1 , Shira Goldman  2 , Ron Wald  3 , Victor Frajewicki  4 , Gil Chernin  5 , Nomy Levin Iaina  6 , Pazit Beckerman  7 , Alon Antebi  8 , Yosef S Haviv  9 , Sydney Benchetrit  1 , Benaya Rozen-Zvi  2 ; Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension
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Delivering Dialysis during Wartime: The Israeli Experience

Keren Cohen-Hagai et al. Kidney360. .
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Conflict of interest statement

A. Antebi reports the following: Employer: Fresenius Medical Care, Israel; and Consultancy: Fresenius Medical Care, Israel. P. Beckerman reports the following: Advisory or Leadership Role: AstraZeneca and Sanofi; and Speakers Bureau: AstraZeneca and Medison. G. Chernin reports the following: Consultancy: AstraZeneca and Bayer; Honoraria: AstraZeneca, Bayer, and BI; and Speakers Bureau: AstraZeneca, Bayer, and Novo Nordisk. K. Cohen-Hagai reports the following: Employer: Meir Medical Center; Consultancy: Fresenius Medical Care; and Speakers Bureau: AstraZeneca, CTS, GSK—invited speaker. V. Frajewicki reports the following: Research Funding: AstraZeneca and LiberDi; Advisory or Leadership Role: Boeheringer Ingelheim and Takeda; and Other Interests or Relationships: Member of the Executive Board, The Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension. S. Goldman reports the following: Other Interests or Relationships: Received Home dialysis fellowship support from the Sinai Health Foundation (with sources from the Israeli Government and the Azrieli Foundation). Y.S. Haviv reports the following: Honoraria: Altman, AstraZeneca, Bayer, and BI; and Advisory or Leadership Role: Fresenius Israel advisory board. N.L. Iaina reports the following: Consultancy: AstraZeneca and BI; and Honoraria: AstraZeneca, Bayer, BI, CTS, and Medison. B. Rozen-Zvi reports the following: Consultancy: AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boeheringer Ingelheim, Fressenius Medical Care, and Novartis; Research Funding: Boeheringer Ingelheim; and Speakers Bureau: AstraZeneca, Bayer, and Boeheringer Ingelheim. R. Wald reports the following: Consultancy: Eliaz Therapeutics, Lilly, and Otsuka; Honoraria: Baxter; Advisory or Leadership Role: Editorial Board, CJASN, Kidney Medicine, and Kidney360; and Other Interests or Relationships: Contributor, UpToDate. The remaining author has nothing to disclose.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Illustrative map of dialysis institutes with geographic proximity to conflict zones. This map is for illustrative purposes only and should not be considered authoritative. The map was adopted from IDF Spokesperson's Unit. The colors on the map represent the time frame (in seconds) within which one needs to reach the protected area from the moment of the alarm sound.
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