2020
DOI: 10.4103/1319-2442.279942
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Cost implication of inpatient care of chronic kidney disease patients in a tertiary hospital in Southwest Nigeria

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“…Majority of HD patients in Nigeria are not optimally dialysed due to financial cost of RRT which is beyond their reach 31 32. Suboptimal dialysis may contribute to higher prevalence of poor sleep quality in MHD patients in this study which is similar to a report by Terzi et al 33.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 80%
“…Majority of HD patients in Nigeria are not optimally dialysed due to financial cost of RRT which is beyond their reach 31 32. Suboptimal dialysis may contribute to higher prevalence of poor sleep quality in MHD patients in this study which is similar to a report by Terzi et al 33.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 80%
“…Late presentation coupled with dearth of medical personnel, diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, medication and prohibitive cost of treatment, most of which is out of pocket, implies that patients with these diseases may already have a poor prognosis even without COVID-19 [30][31][32][33].…”
Section: Plos Onementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Patients with different comorbidities have been presented to have a poor prognosis even without COVID-19 because of late presentation coupled with lack of medical professionals, diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, and exorbitant treatment costs [20][21][22][23]. Regarding comorbidities that anticipated death in COVID-19-infected intensive care patients, our study confirms the prior finding of Grasselli et al [11] and Osibogun et al [12] who had found that diabetes mellitus exacerbated COVID-19 progression, and patients with diabetes mellitus have succumbed to COVID-19.…”
Section: Comorbiditiesmentioning
confidence: 99%