For-profit versus not-for-profit provision of end-stage renal disease care
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It has been proposed that cost-efficiency measures in for-profit hemodialysis units might result in poor quality of care; early studies reported that mortality rates were higher in for-profit units than in not-for-profit units. Now, results of a large retrospective analysis of contemporary data indicate that for-profit dialysis centers actually have better outcomes for conventional end-stage renal disease performance measures than not-for-profit units.
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