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## Background: In view of the growing dialysis population and the increasing reimbursement cost in the industrialized countries, a critical evaluation of the dialysis economy is warranted. ## Methods: Data for the reimbursement and dialysis patients' statistics were collected from the national medical care expenditure (nmce), 1979-1996, which was published by the japanese government, and the article "an overview of regular dialysis treatment in japan," 1979-1998, by the japanese society for dialysis therapy, as well as unpublished data from the yokohama dai-ichi hospital and 10 affiliated urban dialysis centers. ## Results: From 1979 to 1996, the dialysis population increased 5.2 times and the nmce increased 2.5 times, whereas the end-stage renal disease (esrd) payment increased only 1.8 times. because of a drastic reduction in the dialyzer cost and the dialysis-related technical fee, both the percentage of esrd-related payment within nmce and esrd payment per capita per year decreased from 5.4 to 4.1% and from 16.3 million yen to 5.6 million yen, respectively. despite this drastic cost reduction, the patient survival and quality of life determined by the social rehabilitation rate

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Author

Hideo Hidai

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV; ScienceOpen (ISSN 0085-2538)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)