title: Observations on renal replacement services in Russia, Belarus and Lithuania.
abstract: This report describes the current financial, technical and medical status of nephrology, dialysis and renal transplant services in these countries with the hope of helping our colleagues there to upgrade their standards of care. The general impression is that physicians as well as administrators in these countries are eager to improve conditions of patient care despite a disastrous economical climate. Our view is that we can help by providing literature, textbooks, journals, travel funds, by offering visiting fellowships to individual physicians, and by forming partnerships between nephrology centres.
authors.affiliation: Nephrology Department, Bruderkrankenhaus Trier, Germany.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Boesken
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Méry
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Segaert
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bourgoignie
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy*; D008097:Lithuania; D017582:Renal Replacement Therapy / Q000191:economics; D002094:Republic of Belarus; D012426:Russia; D016896:Treatment Outcome