Costs of dialysis for erderly people in the UK

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2122-2127

  Grün, Reinhold P ^a   Constantinovici, Niculae ^a   Normand, Charles ^a   Lamping, Donna L ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic costs; Elderly patients; Haemodialysis; Health and social service use; Peritoneal dialysis

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG COST; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PROBABILITY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 1542681131     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg354     Document Type: Article

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