| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 426 pages) : illustrations, charts |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Overview -- Summary -- Introduction -- Patients and providers -- Perspectives of ESRD patients -- Ethical issues -- The patient population -- The ESRD patient population: special groups -- Structure of the provider community -- Access -- Access problems of ESRD patients -- Access to kidney transplantation -- Reimbursement and quality -- Medicare ESRD payment policy -- Reimbursement effects on quality -- Outpatient dialysis reimbursement issues -- Quality assessment and assurance -- Data and research -- Data systems -- Research needs. |
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Since 1972, many victims of endstage renal disease (ESRD) have received treatment under a unique Medicare entitlement. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the federal ESRD program: who uses it, how well it functions, and what improvements are needed. The book includes recommendations on patient eligibility, reimbursement, quality assessment, medical ethics, and research needs. Kidney Failure and the Federal Government offers a wealth of information on these and other topics: The ESRD patient population ; Dialysis and transplantation providers ; Issues of patient access and availability of treatment ; Ethical issues related to treatment initiation and termination ; Payment policies and their relationship to quality of care. This book will have a major impact on the future of the ESRD program and will be of interest to health policymakers, nephrologists and other individual providers, treatment site administrators, and researchers. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Medicare Bureau. End-Stage Renal Disease Program.
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United States. Medicare Bureau. End-Stage Renal Disease Program. |
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United States. Medicare Bureau. End-Stage Renal Disease Program. |
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Chronic renal failure -- Government policy -- United States.
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Chronic renal failure -- Government policy. |
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United States. |
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Chronic renal failure. |
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Medicare.
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Medicare. |
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Health Policy. |
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Kidney Failure, Chronic -- economics. |
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Kidney Failure, Chronic -- therapy. |
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Medicare -- economics. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rettig, Richard A.
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Levinsky, Norman G. (Norman George), 1929-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee for the Study of the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program. Kidney failure and the federal government. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991 (DLC) 91015611 |
| ISBN |
0585155607 (electronic book) |
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9780585155609 (electronic book) |
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0309044324 (hardback) |
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9780309044325 (hardback) |
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