Liver transplant program. Critical population mass and community need
Despite its proved efficacy hepatic transplant (HT)involves a therapy of high complexity and raisedcost.In Uruguay, with its /ow number of inhabitants, theneed far HT has been challenged.The aim of this report is to justify the need of anHT program with an analysis of the populationcritica! mass, me...
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| Idioma: | espanyol |
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1996
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| Sumari: | Despite its proved efficacy hepatic transplant (HT)involves a therapy of high complexity and raisedcost.In Uruguay, with its /ow number of inhabitants, theneed far HT has been challenged.The aim of this report is to justify the need of anHT program with an analysis of the populationcritica! mass, medica/ care requirements and thevarious factors affecting the patient and its socialsetting at pre and post transplant. A/so dealt withare the contributions of an HT program to globalimprovement of care, particular/y hepatopathies.lt is concluded that an HT, in Uruguay, is ful/yjustified in conjunction with current demand andwith the fact that its population mass warrantsprediction of a higher number of 15 HT's per mil/ioninhabitants. |
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