Cost of Dialysis Therapy by Modality in Manitoba.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The prevalence of ESKD is increasing worldwide. Treating ESKD is disproportionately costly in comparison with its prevalence, mostly due to the direct cost of dialysis therapy. Here, we aim to provide a contemporary cost description of dialysis modalities, including facility-based hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and home hemodialysis, provided with conventional dialysis machines and the NxStage System One.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We constructed a cost-minimization model from the perspective of the Canadian single-payer health care system including all costs related to dialysis care. The labor component of costs consisted of a breakdown of activity-based per patient direct labor requirements. Other costs were taken from state

SUBMITTER: Beaudry A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086697 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature