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Kidney transplant Medicare payments and length of stay: associations with comorbidities and organ quality

INTRODUCTION: We investigated associations between pre-transplant comorbidities, length of stay (LOS) and Medicare payments for transplant hospitalization. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We examined United States Renal Data System for 24,963 recipients of first deceased-donor kidney transplants in 1995-2002...

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Autores principales: Machnicki, Gerardo, Lentine, Krista L., Salvalaggio, Paolo R., Burroughs, Thomas E., Brennan, Daniel C., Schnitzler, Mark A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22291768
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2011.22079