Economic costs of automated and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in Taiwan: a combined survey and retrospective cohort analysis

Conclusions
APD had higher annual dialysis-related costs and lower annual productivity losses than CAPD, which made the economic costs of APD very close to those of CAPD in Taiwan.

Source: BMJ Open - March 20, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tang, C.-H., Wu, Y.-T., Huang, S.-Y., Chen, H.-H., Wu, M.-J., Hsu, B.-G., Tsai, J.-C., Chen, T.-H., Sue, Y.-M. Tags: Open access, Health economics, Renal medicine Research Source Type: research