TY - JOUR JF - jha JO - jha VL - 7 IS - 16 PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/7/01 TI - Retracted: Comparative Study of cost-effectiveness of Dialysis and kidney Transplant Using Delphi index, Shahid Hasheminejad Hospital TT - باز پس گرفته شده: مقایسه هزینه ـ اثر بخشی روش دیالیز با پیوند کلیه با استفاده از شاخص دالی در بیمارستان شهید هاشمی نژاد N2 - Introduction: long-term hemodialysis and kidney transplantation are the most common treatment for kidney failure. Regarding the increasing demand of these patients to receive therapeutic services, cost-effectiveness of these methods are compared. Method:This Cross - Sectional research was done to compare cost - effectiveness of long - term hemodialysis and kidney transplantation using Delphi index and patients' medical records. Research population are Kidney patients referring to Shahid Hasherminejad Hospital in 1378. Finding: In this survey expenses of 1378 were tallied. Findings show that kidney transplantation expenses were 38% and 18.5% of long-term hemodialysis for male and female patients, respectively. In Delphi Scale, effectiveness of kidney hausplautation was 7 times more than long-term hemodialysis. In summation, cost-effectiveness of kidney Hausplantation is 8 times more than hemodialysis. Conclusion: Long-term dialysis average expenses are four times more than kidney transplantation index of effectiveness in kidney transplantation method was more than long-term dialysis up-to the age 54 in the research population.Cost-effectiveaess of kidney transplantation method in different age groups is 3-14 times more than long-term dialysis. SP - 46 EP - 50 AU - Karimi, I AU - Zohoor, AR AU - Vianchi, A AD - KW - Cost-effectiveness KW - Delphi KW - Long-term dialysis KW - kidney UR - http://jha.iums.ac.ir/article-1-155-en.html ER -