Estimating patient-borne water and electricity costs in home hemodialysis: a simulation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home hemodialysis is associated with lower costs to the health care system compared with conventional facility-based hemodialysis because of lower staffing and overhead costs, and by transferring the treatment cost of utilities (water and power) to the patient. The purpose of this study was to determine the utility costs of home hemodialysis and create a formula such that patients and renal programs can estimate the annual patient-borne costs involved with this type of treatment.

Methods

Seven common combinations of treatment duration and dialysate flows were replicated 5 times using various combinations of home hemodialysis and reverse osmosis machines. Real-time utility (electricity and water) consumption was monitored during these simulations. A generic formula

SUBMITTER: Nickel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5378499 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature