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| Maintenance dialysis population dynamics: Current trends and long-term implications |
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| Author(s): Lysaght MJ |
| Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY Volume: 13 Issue: 1 Pages: S37-S40 Supplement: Suppl. 1 Published: JAN 2002 |
| Times Cited: 96 References: 16 |
| Abstract: Despite a general recognition that treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has become a large-scale undertaking, the size of the treated population and the associated costs are not well quantified. This report combines data available from a variety of sources and places the current (midyear 2001) estimated global maintenance dialysis population at just over 1.1 million patients. The size of this population has been expanding at a rate of 7% per year. Total therapy cost per patient per year in the United States is approximately $66,000. Assuming that this figure is a reasonable global average, the annual worldwide cost of maintenance ESRD therapy in the year 2001, excluding renal transplantation, will be between $70 and $75 billion US dollars. If current trends in ESRD prevalence continue, as seems probable, the ESRD population will exceed 2 million patients by the year 2010. The care of this group represents a major societal commitment: the aggregate cost of treating ESRD during the coming decade will exceed $1 trillion, a thought-provoking sum by any economic metric. |
| Document Type: Article |
| Language: English |
| Reprint Address: Lysaght, MJ (reprint author), Brown Univ, Ctr Biomed Engn, Providence, RI 02818 USA |
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1. Brown Univ, Ctr Biomed Engn, Providence, RI 02818 USA |
| Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 530 WALNUT ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-3621 USA |
| Subject Category: Urology & Nephrology |
| IDS Number: 505PM |
| ISSN: 1046-6673 |
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