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Original Source: Economic consequences of an increased number of patients on outgoing dialysis.
Abstract Objective. During the past 10 years the number of prevalent patients on dialysis treatment has doubled in Denmark and the number is expected to increase further. The majority of Danish patients on dialysis receive haemodialysis at a hospital-based centre, and increasing patient numbers will put pressure on these dialysis centres. In order to reduce this pressure, more patients will need to be offered dialysis as outgoing treatment. The aim of this study was to analyse the economic consequences of a...
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In medicine, dialysis is a process for removing waste and excess water from the blood, and is primarily used to provide an artificial replacement for lost kidney function in people with renal failur...
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Early Embryo Viability Assessment Test (Eeva)
Auxogyn’s non-invasive Early Embryo Viability Assessment Test (Eeva) may improve in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes by providing IVF clinics and patients with objective information on embry...
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Overnight Dialysis Gives Patients A Break From Daily Routine
More than 350,000 Americans rely on dialysis to survive after their kidneys fail. Getting dialysis treatments takes hours out of a patient's day, but now a new overnight dialysis process is giving...
FMCNA urges dialysis patients to get flu shots
With flu season just around the corner, Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), the nation's leading network of dialysis facilities, is urging dialysis patients to get flu shots to protect thems...
Timeline: Medicare Payment for Dialysis
Medicare spending for outpatient dialysis and injectable drugs administered during dialysis was about $9.2 billion in 2009 and is a predominant share of revenues for dialysis facilities. According to...
Kelley Bernheim Dolinsky, LLC, national consumer safety law firm specializing in product liability litigation -- www.duejustice.com -- is alerting dialysis patients of the FDA's Class I Recall -- the...
Kelley Bernheim Dolinsky, LLC, national consumer safety law firm specializing in product liability litigation -- www.duejustice.com -- is alerting dialysis patients of the FDA's Class I Recall -- the...
Daily Dialysis Has Risks, Benefits for Kidney Disease Patients
THURSDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- While daily dialysis can boost the overall health of kidney disease patients, it also can put them at higher risk for certain complications, a new study finds. Ab...
Hemodiafiltration Prolongs Dialysis Patients' Lives
A technique that removes additional toxins during dialysis may prolong kidney failure patients' lives, according to a clinical trial appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Socie...
Palliative Care Improves Quality of Life at the End-of-Life for Dialysis Patients
Some dialysis patients—young or old, newbies or old pro’s—come to a point in their life where dialysis becomes a burden, they become uncomfortable, or perhaps they just become tired of the same...
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Peritoneal dialysis in transplant recipient patients: Outcomes and management.
Abstract Transplant recipient patients performing dialysis represent a growing population in the integrated model of renal replacement therapy. This includes both patients with kidney allograft loss a...
Perspective - the issues surrounding ESKD and dialysis in the elderly and those with co-morbidities.
There is a disproportionate increase in the number of elderly patients, many with multiple co-morbidities, commencing dialysis. Predictors of survival for elderly patients on dialysis include age, com...
Environmental factors influencing the survival of chronic dialysis patients.
BACKGROUND: There have been few investigations into the effects of environmental factors on the outcome of end-stage renal disease. METHODS: We investigated factors influencing the survival of dialysi...
Economic consequences of an increased number of patients on outgoing dialysis.
Abstract Objective. During the past 10 years the number of prevalent patients on dialysis treatment has doubled in Denmark and the number is expected to increase further. The majority of Danish patien...
The often difficult decision of which patients will benefit from dialysis.
Nephrologists seek to provide dialysis to those who will benefit most while being honest and direct with those who are unlikely to benefit or even be harmed by dialysis; these can be difficult decisio...
