Publications by authors named "Melissa M Alvarez"
Medicine (Baltimore)
December 2014
Article Synopsis
- Patients with late-stage kidney disease often start dialysis through temporary catheters, but recent Medicare policy changes are encouraging the use of peritoneal dialysis (PD) as a quicker alternative.
- Urgent-start PD is safe and effective, and this study aimed to evaluate its costs compared to urgent-start hemodialysis (HD) and a combination approach.
- The analysis showed that urgent-start PD costs about $16,398 per patient over 90 days, making it a potentially more cost-effective option than urgent-start HD, which costs approximately $19,352.
