Multidisciplinary predialysis education reduced the inpatient and total medical costs of the first 6 months of dialysis in incident hemodialysis patients.

The multidisciplinary pre-dialysis education (MPE) retards renal progression, reduce incidence of dialysis and mortality of CKD patients. However, the financial benefit of this intervention on patients starting hemodialysis has not yet been evaluated in prospective and randomized trial.We studied th...

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Main Authors: Yu-Jen Yu, I-Wen Wu, Chun-Yu Huang, Kuang-Hung Hsu, Chin-Chan Lee, Chio-Yin Sun, Heng-Jung Hsu, Mai-Szu Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4232513?pdf=render