The purpose of this study was to describe the quality of life among 33 patients with chronic kidney disease in …

was also associated with an increase in physician visits and a seven log point reduction in mortality from kidney disease …I study the effect of the 1973 expansion of Medicare coverage to individuals with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) on … insurance coverage, health care utilization, and mortality. Between the ESRD expansion and a simultaneous expansion of Medicare …

This report aims to identify disease categories with the highest economic and social costs and a low level of R … investments in therapeutic areas.We find that only 25 percent of disease categories causing high economic and social costs … high medical costs per patient collected 0.3 percent of research investments on average.A disease’s cost and impact on …