Nephrol Dial Transplant (2000) 15: 1133-1139
© 2000 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association
Special Feature
Progress in dialysis technology: membrane selection and patient outcome
1 Azienda Ospedale di Lecco, Lecco, Italy, 2 University Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain, 3 Department of Nephrology, School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, UK, 4 University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, 5 University Hospital, Maastricht, The Netherlands, and 6 Department of Clinical Medicine, Nephrology and Preventive Medicine, University of Parma, Italy
Introduction
Locatelli: When the need for dialysis arises, there are many different ways to treat patients, none of them necessarily wrong, but more agreement is needed on some of the basic techniques. In particular, there is still no consensus on the quality of dialysis treatment.
National differences
Locatelli: Let us start with an overview on possible national differences in the prevalence of patients with chronic renal insufficiency (CRI) on substitutive treatment by dialysis, in the distribution of treated patients among public, private and no profit centres, hospital centres, limited care, and home haemodialysis and in the percentage of patients treated by haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis (either CAPD or CCPD).
Bommer (see also appendix, section 1): The total number of dialysis patients in Germany is increasing by about 8% per year and the latest figure of 48 000 is probably an underestimate. The underlying renal diseases are changing in the population, in
Membrane selection and patient outcome
Technology versus price
Consensus on membrane selection and patient outcome
Appendix
National differences in renal dialysis
Section 1: Germany
Section 2: The Netherlands
Section 3: United Kingdom
Section 4: Spain
Section 5: Italy
Section 6: France
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
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