Economic and quality of care evaluation of dialysis service models in remote Australia: protocol for a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Australia's Northern Territory (NT) has the country's highest incidence and prevalence of kidney disease. Indigenous people from remote areas suffer the heaviest disease burden. Concerns regarding cost and sustainability limit the provision of dialysis treatments in remote areas and most Indigenous people requiring dialysis relocate to urban areas. However, this dislocation of people from their family, community and support networks may prove more costly when the broader health, societal and economic consequences for the individual, family and whole of government are considered.

Methods

The Dialysis Models of Care Study is a large cross organisation mixed methods study. It includes a retrospective (2000-2014) longitudinal data linkage study of two NT cohorts: Rena

SUBMITTER: Gorham G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5415781 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature