Multidisciplinary Predialysis Education Reduced the Inpatient and Total Medical Costs of the First 6 Months of Dialysis in Incident Hemodialysis Patients

• Yu-Jen Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Jen Yu, I-Wen Wu

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

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• I-Wen Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Jen Yu, I-Wen Wu

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

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• Chun-Yu Huang,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Epidemiology, Department of Health Care Management, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

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• Kuang-Hung Hsu,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Epidemiology, Department of Health Care Management, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

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• Chin-Chan Lee,

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

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• Chio-Yin Sun,

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

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• Heng-Jung Hsu,

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

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• Mai-Szu Wu

  * E-mail: maiszuwu@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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