Health care reform engulfs all of us

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1881-1884

  Friedman, E A ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; HEALTH INSURANCE; MORTALITY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EUROPE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029798067     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027694     Document Type: Short Survey

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