Oshawa General Hospital regional dialysis program: dialysis survey.

In October of 1995 the dialysis program at Oshawa General Hospital initiated a survey that was sent out to all dialysis units across Canada listed in the 1995 Canadian Organ Replacement Registry. The survey was designed to gather a broad range of information on dialysis programs across the country. The overall response rate was a positive 54%. The results are broken down into general information, clinical practice, education, support services and technological issues, with further division into hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis where appropriate. The survey revealed wide variations in practice across the country with little standardization even within individual regions.