Access to and coverage of renal replacement therapy in minorities and ethnic groups in Venezuela

Kidney International, Supplement

Volumn 68, Issue 97, 2005, Pages

  Bellorin Font, Ezequiel ^a   Pernalete, Nidia ^b   Meza, Josefina ^b   Milanes, Carmen Luisa ^b   Carlini, Raul G ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CARACAS   (Venezuela)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Access to RRT; Inequity in RRT; RRT in minority group

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NEPHROLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VENEZUELA; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MINORITY GROUP; REVIEW; STATISTICS; DISEASE COURSE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PROPHYLAXIS;

ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MINORITY GROUPS; RENAL DIALYSIS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 27744446522     PISSN: 00986577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2005.09703.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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