Facing the Reality: The World Cannot Afford Uremia Therapy at the Start of the 21st Century

Artificial Organs

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 481-485

  Friedman, Eli A ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics of renal therapy; End stage renal therapy; Renal therapy; Uremia therapy

Indexed keywords

PELLETIZING; WASTES;

ECONOMIC OF RENAL THERAPY; END-STAGE RENAL THERAPY; HIGH COSTS; MINIMAL PROBABILITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTS; RENAL FAILURE; RENAL THERAPY; UREMIA THERAPY; USEFUL LIFE; WORLD POPULATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COST; DIALYSIS; FUTUROLOGY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; UREMIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029041745     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.1995.tb02363.x     Document Type: Article

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