Further approaches to reduce the cost of renal replacement therapy

Affiliations

• ¹ Nephrology Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University Hospital 0K12, De Pintelaan 185, B9000, Ghent, Belgium.
• ² Ghent University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, De Pintelaan 185, B9000, Ghent, Belgium.
• ³ Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Nephrology, University Medical Center Groningen, University Hospital Groningen, Hanzeplein, 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands.
• ⁵ Unit of Pharmacotherapy, Epidemiology &Economics (PTE2), Department of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands.
• ⁶ NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, 92-94 Parramatta Road, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia.
• ⁷ Department of Nephrology 6J, Internal Medicine III, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
• ⁸ Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands.
• ⁹ Insitute for Science in Healthy Aging &Healthcare (SHARE), University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ University of Calgary, 7th Floor, TRW Building, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4Z6, Canada.
• ¹¹ CNR-IFC, Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Hypertension and Renal Diseases Unit, Ospedali Riuniti, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy.