Financial incentives to promote prolonged renal graft survival: Potential for patients and public health

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 218-220

  Beier, Ulf Henning ^a   Hidalgo, Guillermo ^a   John, Eunice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT;

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MOTIVATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MOTIVATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; REWARD;

EID: 37349044620     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.05.041     Document Type: Editorial

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