1. Medical Costs of Untreated Anemia in Elderly Patients with Predialysis Chronic Kidney Disease
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Brahim Bookhart, Mei Sheng Duh, Samir H. Mody, Sharon Buteau, and Patrick Lefebvre
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Male ,Subset Analysis ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Anemia ,law.invention ,Cohort Studies ,Coronary artery disease ,Hemoglobins ,Cost of Illness ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Myocardial infarction ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Analysis of Variance ,business.industry ,Retrospective cohort study ,Health Care Costs ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Nephrology ,Multivariate Analysis ,Kidney Failure, Chronic ,Female ,business ,Kidney disease ,Cohort study - Abstract
The objective of this study was to quantify the incremental medical costs that are associated with untreated anemia among elderly patients with predialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD). An analysis of claims and laboratory data between January 1999 and February 2005 was conducted. Inclusion criteria were age >/=65 yr, two or more hemoglobin readings, one or more claims for CKD, and two or more GFR values of
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- 2006
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