Costs of dialysis--a regional population-based analysis
Author(s) -
A. Icks,
B. Haastert,
Afschin Gandjour,
N. Chernyak,
Wolfgang Rathmann,
G. Giani,
Lars Christian Rump,
R. Trapp,
Michael Koch
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfp672
Subject(s) - medicine , dialysis , population , reimbursement , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , confidence interval , indirect costs , total cost , hemodialysis , surgery , health care , environmental health , economics , economic growth , business , accounting , microeconomics
Population-based estimates of costs of renal replacement therapy are scarce in the literature. The aim of our study was to calculate the costs of long-term dialysis in 2006 on the basis of patient-specific data from a well-defined population in a region in western Germany (n = 310,757).
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