Cost analysis of renal replacement therapy by transplant in a system of bundled payment of dialysis

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 529-531

  Rocha, Maria João ^a,b   Ferreira, Susana ^c   Martins, La Salete ^a,b   Almeida, Manuela ^a,b   Dias, Leonídeo ^a,b   Pedroso, Sofia ^a,b   Henriques, António Castro ^a,b   Almeida, Rui ^b   Cabrita, António ^a,b  

^a Nephrology Department   (Portugal)

^b Transplantation Department   (Portugal)

^c HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bundled payment; Costs analysis; Dialysis; Renal replacement therapy; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; BUNDLED PAYMENT SYSTEM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST OF ILLNESS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONEY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84864942162     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01571.x     Document Type: Article

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