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The cost of dialysis in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, November 2015
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Title
The cost of dialysis in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review
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BMC Health Services Research, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12913-015-1166-8
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Lawrencia Mushi, Paul Marschall, Steffen Fleßa

Abstract

The cost of dialysis in low and middle-Income countries has not been systematically reviewed. The objective of this article is to systematically review peer-reviewed articles on the cost of dialysis across low and middle-income countries. PubMed and Embase databases were searched for the year 1998 to March 2013, and additional studies were added from Google Scholar search. An article was included if two reviewers agreed that it had reported cost of dialysis from low and middle-Income countries. The annual cost per patient for hemodialysis (HD) ranged from Int$ 3,424 to Int$ 42,785, and peritoneal dialysis (PD) ranged from Int$ 7,974 to Int$ 47,971. Direct medical cost especially drugs and consumables for HD and dialysis solutions and tubing for PD were the main cost drivers. The number of studies on the economics of dialysis in low and middle-income countries is limited. Few papers indicate that dialysis is an expensive form of treatment for the population of these countries and that the poorer countries have an over-proportional burden to finance dialysis services. Further research is needed to determine the cost of dialysis based on a standard methodology grounded on existing economic guidelines and to address the question whether dialysis should be an element of the essential package of health in resource-poor countries. Used data should be as complete as possible. In case of missing data, proxies can be used. In case of developing countries, expert interviews are often used for estimating missing information.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
Unknown 244 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 48 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 10%
Student > Bachelor 22 9%
Researcher 20 8%
Student > Postgraduate 19 8%
Other 40 16%
Unknown 73 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 73 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 11%
Social Sciences 9 4%
Engineering 9 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 3%
Other 41 17%
Unknown 80 33%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 April 2023.
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#4,157,116
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#1,883
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#15
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