Chronic Kidney Failure
Data from Erasmus University advance knowledge in chronic kidney failure
Published in Drug Law Weekly, September 16th, 2008
"Various utility measures have been used to assess preference-based quality of life of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The purposes of this study were to Summarize the literature on utilities of hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD), and renal transplantation (RTx) patients, to compare utilities between these patient groups, and to obtain estimates for quality-of-life adjustment in economic analyses," scientists in Netherlands report.
"We searched the English literature for studies that reported visual analog scale (VAS), time trade-off (TTO), standard gamble (SG), EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D), and health utilities index (HUI) values of ESRD patients. We...
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Source: Drug Law Weekly (2008-09-16)
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