A flexible model for planning facilities for patients with end-stage renal failure.
Resource needs for patients with renal failure change as policies vary and survival improves. Thus a model was developed to estimate the facilities (number of beds) needed for such patients in the North-west Region; national resource needs could be obtained by multiplying the regional needs by eleven. The model predicted an unforeseen demand for hospital and satellite unit facilities and for unit back-up beds. The increasing survival of transplants is an important determinant of resource needs, and the model readily indicates the impact of changes in this factor.
D006275:Health Facility Planning; D006437:Hemodialysis, Home; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012040:Regional Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D013997:Time Factors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D006113:United Kingdom