Integrating emotional and psychological support into the end-stage renal disease pathway: a protocol for mixed methods research to identify patients’ lower-level support needs and how these can most effectively be addressed

Table 1 Numbers of patients at each stage of ESRD pathway

	Study site 1	Study site 2	Total	40 % response rate
Pre-dialysis	180^a	180^a	360	144
On dialysis less than 2 years, not on transplant list	114	111	225	90
On dialysis more than 2 years, not on transplant list	213	259	472	189
On dialysis and on transplant list	56^c	106^c	162	65
With transplant for any time period	180^b	182^b	362	145
Total all stages	743	838	1581	633

Sources: Estimates based on figures from Renal Registry, 2014 (Tables 1.4, 5.9, 5.11); ^aTrust figures, September 2015; ^bRenal Registry, 2014 (Table 2.2.); ^c Estimates based on figures from Renal Registry, 2013 (Tables 2.2 and 4.2) and Renal Registry, 2014 (Tables 1.4 and 2.2)

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