Impact of a quality improvement programme based on vascular access flow monitoring on costs, access occlusion and access failure

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3514-3519

  Wijnen, Edwin ^a   Planken, Nils ^a   Keuter, Xavier ^a   Kooman, Jeroen P ^a   Tordoir, Jan H M ^a   de Haan, Michiel W ^a   Leunissen, Karel M L ^a   van der Sande, Frank M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AGED; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; QUALITY CONTROL; RENAL DIALYSIS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33751405951     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl424     Document Type: Article

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