Caring for Migrants and Refugees With End-Stage Kidney Disease in Europe

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 701-709

  Van Biesen, Wim ^a   Vanholder, Raymond ^a   Ernandez, Thomas ^b   Drewniak, Daniel ^c   Luyckx, Valerie ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dialysis; end stage kidney disease (ESKD); ethics; Europe; health care; health care policy; health inequities; immigration; kidney transplantation; migrants; Refugees

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE EAST; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; REFUGEE; REIMBURSEMENT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; VULNERABLE POPULATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODIALYSIS; MALE; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; REFUGEES; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 85038911066     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2017.10.015     Document Type: Article

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