Table 1.
COVID-19 hospitalizations of dialysis patients (including intensive care unit admissions) and associated characteristics in Ontario and Canada (January to March 2020).
Fig 1.
2D and 3D models of Toronto General Hospital, hemodialysis departments developed for the simulations.
Table 2.
Key infection mitigation measures used in the dialysis centre.
Fig 2.
General structure of the agent-based simulation model (Left: Agents, Right: Environment Detail).
Fig 3.
Workflow of selected active agents in AnyLogic® pedestrian model.
Table 3.
Weekly Schedule of healthcare providers and patients.
Table 4.
Parameters used in the agent-based simulation.
Fig 4.
Contact array at two successive times.
Fig 5.
Disease transmission model of the dialysis unit.
Table 5.
Parameters of the agent-based disease transmission model.
Fig 6.
Time series of hourly cumulative time of connections between agents.
a) normal schedule b) normal and without break time scenario.
Fig 7.
Time series of the hourly/daily cumulative number (left charts) and time (right charts) of connections during a one-week simulation of the normal schedule of the dialysis department.
Table 6.
Average micro-scale contact matrices (MSCM) during a one-week simulation.
Fig 8.
Number of individuals exposed from a category (title of each chart) over time (day) under different scenarios (shown in the legend) such as: Entering an asymptomatic person, without break, and random testing in the dialysis unit.
Table 7.
The maximum percent of individuals exposed and its corresponding time (day) when an asymptomatic patient or staff is coming to the dialysis unit.