Hospital Resource Utilization That Occurs with, Rather than Because of, Kidney Failure in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease
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Hospital resource utilization that occurs with, rather than because of, kidney failure in patients with end-stage renal disease.
More than $18 billion annually is attributed to care of patients with ESRD, with the perception of high renal costs for a relatively small population. It was proposed that accounting methods exaggerate resource utilization that often occurs with rather than because of kidney failure. The dialysis patients in this study had nearly all of their care at university facilities with one financial dat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1555-9041,1555-905X
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.01210406