Policies and health care financing issues for dialysis in Latin America: Extracts from the roundtable discussion on the economics of dialysis and chronic kidney disease

Peritoneal Dialysis International

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Pecoits Filho, Roberto ^a   Campos, Camilo ^b   Cerdas Calderon, Manuel ^b   Fortes, Paulo ^b   Jarpa, Cecilia ^b   Just, Paul ^b   Luconi, Paulo ^b   Lugon, Jocemir R ^b   Pacheco, Alejandro ^b   Paniagua, Ramon ^b   Rodriguez, Konniev ^b   Sanabria, Mauricio ^b   Sciaraffia, Vito ^b   Velasco, Carlos ^b   De Arteaga, Javier ^b  

^a Centro de Ciências Biológicas e Da Saúde   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dialysis economics; Latin America; Reimbursement

Indexed keywords

CHILE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TREATMENT INDICATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; ECONOMICS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LATIN AMERICA; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 67449108301     PISSN: 08968608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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