Increasing Rates of Kidney Failure Care in Canada Strains Demand for Kidney Donors
| Autor: | Michael Terner, Noura Redding, Juliana Wu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Nephrology Canada medicine.medical_specialty Tissue and Organ Procurement Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment 030232 urology & nephrology Renal function Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine medicine Humans Registries 030212 general & internal medicine Organ donation Child Intensive care medicine Dialysis Aged Health Services Needs and Demand Kidney urogenital system business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Infant Middle Aged medicine.disease Kidney Transplantation medicine.anatomical_structure Child Preschool Donation Quality of Life Kidney Failure Chronic business Kidney disease |
| Zdroj: | Healthcare Quarterly. 19:10-12 |
| ISSN: | 1929-6347 |
| DOI: | 10.12927/hcq.2016.24864 |
| Popis: | The number of patients with kidney failure is on the rise in Canada, leading to a higher need for dialysis treatment and greater demand for kidney transplants, which have superior patient outcomes and lower healthcare system costs than dialysis treatments. This study examines the incidence and prevalence of kidney failure and renal replacement therapies between 2005 and 2014. The number of patients on dialysis has increased by 31% over this decade. The number of annual kidney transplants performed has also increased along with the waiting list for a kidney transplant, resulting in a persistent 2.5 times gap between patients on a waiting list for a kidney and the number of kidney transplants performed. New programs to increase organ donation to kidney failure patients have led to improvements, but have not been able to close this gap. Continued innovations are needed to preserve kidney function for patients with chronic kidney disease and to promote and increase donation rates in Canada to improve the quality of life and survival of thousands of patients, as well as save hundreds of millions of dollars to healthcare systems in Canada. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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