The direct and indirect economic costs incurred by living kidney donors - A systematic review

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1952-1960

  Clarke, Katherine S ^a   Klarenbach, Scott ^b,c   Vlaicu, Sorina ^a   Yang, Robert C ^a   Garg, Amit X ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Institute of Health Economics   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health economics; Living kidney donors; Reimbursement; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EMBASE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SCISEARCH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; COST OF ILLNESS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; FEES AND CHARGES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MOTIVATION; PUBLIC POLICY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 33745606946     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl069     Document Type: Review

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