Measuring and Improving the Health Status of End Stage Renal Disease Patients

Richard A. Rettig, John H. Sadler

ResearchPosted on rand.org 1997Published In: Health Care Financing Review, v. 18, no. 4, 1997, p. 77-82

This brief health care highlight reports on recent efforts to develop and promote health status measurement instruments for use in dialysis units that treat end-stage renal disease patients, most of whom are covered for all medical services under Medicare.

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  • Copyright: Dept. of Health, Education, And Welfare
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 1997
  • Pages: 6
  • Document Number: EP-199700-14

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