title: The impact of federal funding. Long-term dialysis programs: new selection criteria, new problems.
abstract: The following transcript is adapted from a case conference held in the Barnes and Wohl Hospitals, St. Louis, Missouri. The participants are members of the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pathology of the Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Renée Fox, professor and chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of the book The Courage to Fail, was a guest at the conference.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D005380:Financing, Government; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D006278:Medicare; D009042:Motivation; D010361:Patients; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014481:United States