In our study, dialysis patients were not separately assessed, but deaths due to diseases of the genitourinary system were shown to have a decreasing trend which might be due to a difference in healthcare systems in Iran and India; for example, there are dialysis units which are not strictly dependent on hospitals in Iran, which provide the chronic kidney disease patients with care, so their sessions are not delayed at the times of hospital downgrading. 22 There are some limitations in our study.
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The trend of mortality rates following hospitals downgrading and closures due to outbreak of COVID-19 in Fars province: A comparative cohort study.
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