Dialysis rationing in South Africa: a global message

Kidney Int. 2006 Sep;70(6):982-4. doi: 10.1038/sj.ki.5001798.

Abstract

Dialysis rationing resulting from limited facilities and health-care personnel in low- and middle-income countries such as South Africa must be addressed on several fronts. Prevention of kidney disease is an essential long-term approach, but in the short term, it is necessary to increase access to dialysis and transplantation, and to seek ways to limit the 'brain drain' to the developed world.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Decision Making
  • Developing Countries / economics
  • Health Care Rationing / economics*
  • Health Care Rationing / statistics & numerical data
  • Health Care Rationing / trends*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / economics
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / epidemiology
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy*
  • Kidney Transplantation / statistics & numerical data
  • Renal Dialysis* / economics
  • Renal Dialysis* / methods
  • Renal Dialysis* / statistics & numerical data
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • South Africa / epidemiology