Reducing the costs of chronic kidney disease while delivering quality health care: A call to action

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 393-409

  Vanholder, Raymond ^a   Annemans, Lieven ^b   Brown, Edwina ^c   Gansevoort, Ron ^d   Gout Zwart, Judith J ^e   Lameire, Norbert ^a   Morton, Rachael L ^f   Oberbauer, Rainer ^g   Postma, Maarten J ^d,e   Tonelli, Marcello ^h   Biesen, Wim Van ^a   Zoccali, Carmine ⁱ  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

ⁱ BIANCHI MELACRINO MORELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIVING DONOR; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SODIUM RESTRICTION; TIME TO TREATMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT; ECONOMICS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC;

HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

EID: 85020498494     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2017.63     Document Type: Review

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