Healthcare related activity following kidney transplantation: an observational cohort study.
BACKGROUND BACKGROUND METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION Post-Transplant Activity Applicability Summary Competing interests Patient consent for publication Funding REFERENCES Renal transplantation is regarded as the gold standard of renal replacement therapy (RRT) with evidence of improved life expectancy, quality of life and superior cost-effectiveness when compared to dialysis (1-6). In recent years there has been a steady rise in the incidence of renal transplantation within most developed healthcare economies (7). Such has been the observed benefit that transplantation is now being considered across an increasingly wide range of patient age, BMI and comor ...
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