Costs and length of hospitalizations following kidney transplantation

Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-108

  Pourfarziani, Vahid ^a   Nourbala, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Farahani, Mehdi Azizabadi ^a   Lankarani, Maryam Moghani ^b   Assari, Shervin ^c  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Medicine and Health Promotion Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

Health care costs; Hospitalization; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; IRAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; IRAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 67449138877     PISSN: 17358582     EISSN: 17358604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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