title: ESRD as a window into America's cost crisis in health care.
authors.affiliation: Section of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, TAC S-255, New Haven, CT 06520-8029, USA.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Knauf
authors.forename: Peter S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Aronson
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate; D017048:Health Care Costs; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology; D019057:Quality-Adjusted Life Years