Further approaches to reduce the cost of renal replacement therapy

Affiliations

¹ Nephrology Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University Hospital 0K12, De Pintelaan 185, B9000, Ghent, Belgium.
² Ghent University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, De Pintelaan 185, B9000, Ghent, Belgium.
³ Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK.
⁴ Department of Nephrology, University Medical Center Groningen, University Hospital Groningen, Hanzeplein, 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands.
⁵ Unit of Pharmacotherapy, Epidemiology &Economics (PTE2), Department of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands.
⁶ NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, 92-94 Parramatta Road, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia.
⁷ Department of Nephrology 6J, Internal Medicine III, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands.
⁹ Insitute for Science in Healthy Aging &Healthcare (SHARE), University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands.
¹⁰ University of Calgary, 7th Floor, TRW Building, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4Z6, Canada.
¹¹ CNR-IFC, Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Hypertension and Renal Diseases Unit, Ospedali Riuniti, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy.

Comment

Raymond Vanholder et al. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2017 Nov.

. 2017 Nov;13(11):720.

doi: 10.1038/nrneph.2017.136. Epub 2017 Sep 25.

¹ Nephrology Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University Hospital 0K12, De Pintelaan 185, B9000, Ghent, Belgium.
² Ghent University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, De Pintelaan 185, B9000, Ghent, Belgium.
³ Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK.
⁴ Department of Nephrology, University Medical Center Groningen, University Hospital Groningen, Hanzeplein, 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands.
⁵ Unit of Pharmacotherapy, Epidemiology &Economics (PTE2), Department of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands.
⁶ NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, 92-94 Parramatta Road, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia.
⁷ Department of Nephrology 6J, Internal Medicine III, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands.
⁹ Insitute for Science in Healthy Aging &Healthcare (SHARE), University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands.
¹⁰ University of Calgary, 7th Floor, TRW Building, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4Z6, Canada.
¹¹ CNR-IFC, Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Hypertension and Renal Diseases Unit, Ospedali Riuniti, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy.

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Reducing the costs of chronic kidney disease while delivering quality health care: a call to action.
Vanholder R, Annemans L, Brown E, Gansevoort R, Gout-Zwart JJ, Lameire N, Morton RL, Oberbauer R, Postma MJ, Tonelli M, Biesen WV, Zoccali C; European Kidney Health Alliance. Vanholder R, et al. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2017 Jul;13(7):393-409. doi: 10.1038/nrneph.2017.63. Epub 2017 May 30. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2017. PMID: 28555652 Review.
Gradual initiation of dialysis as a means to reduce cost while providing quality health care.
Elrggal ME, Zyada R. Elrggal ME, et al. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2017 Nov;13(11):720. doi: 10.1038/nrneph.2017.135. Epub 2017 Sep 25. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2017. PMID: 28944775 No abstract available.