Dialyzer repair: A disastrous exercise in cost effectiveness

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 453-454

  Shaldon, Stanley ^a   Koch, Karl Martin ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCARBON;

ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; EDITORIAL; PRESSURE; STANDARD;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 0036739202     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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