Biomaterial Database

The monthly capitated payment/Part II. Establishing relative work values, looking at practice expenses. 1996

E P Paganini

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007676	Kidney Failure, Chronic	The end-stage of CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY. It is characterized by the severe irreversible kidney damage (as measured by the level of PROTEINURIA) and the reduction in GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE to less than 15 ml per min (Kidney Foundation: Kidney Disease Outcome Quality Initiative, 2002). These patients generally require HEMODIALYSIS or KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION.	ESRD,End-Stage Renal Disease,Renal Disease, End-Stage,Renal Failure, Chronic,Renal Failure, End-Stage,Chronic Kidney Failure,End-Stage Kidney Disease,Chronic Renal Failure,Disease, End-Stage Kidney,Disease, End-Stage Renal,End Stage Kidney Disease,End Stage Renal Disease,End-Stage Renal Failure,Kidney Disease, End-Stage,Renal Disease, End Stage,Renal Failure, End Stage
D009398	Nephrology	A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the kidney.
D011216	Practice Management, Medical	The organization and operation of the business aspects of a physician's practice.	Medical Practice Management Services,Management, Medical Practice,Medical Practice Management,Practice Management Services, Medical,Managements, Medical Practice,Medical Practice Managements,Practice Managements, Medical
D002204	Capitation Fee	A method of payment for health services in which an individual or institutional provider is paid a fixed, per capita amount without regard to the actual number or nature of services provided to each patient.	Fee, Capitation,Capitation Fees,Fees, Capitation
D005251	Fees, Medical	Amounts charged to the patient as payer for medical services.	Fee, Medical,Medical Fee,Medical Fees
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012955	Societies, Medical	Societies whose membership is limited to physicians.	Medical Societies,Medical Society,Society, Medical
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D015895	Relative Value Scales	Coded listings of physician or other professional services using units that indicate the relative value of the various services they perform. They take into account time, skill, and overhead cost required for each service, but generally do not consider the relative cost-effectiveness. Appropriate conversion factors can be used to translate the abstract units of the relative value scales into dollar fees for each service based on work expended, practice costs, and training costs.	Relative-Value Schedules,Resource-Based Relative Value Scale,Resource Based Relative Value Scale,Relative Value Scale,Relative Value Schedules,Relative-Value Schedule,Scale, Relative Value,Scales, Relative Value,Schedule, Relative-Value,Schedules, Relative-Value
D017582	Renal Replacement Therapy	Procedures which temporarily or permanently remedy insufficient cleansing of body fluids by the kidneys.	Kidney Replacement Therapy,Replacement Therapy, Kidney,Replacement Therapy, Renal,Therapy, Kidney Replacement,Therapy, Renal Replacement,Kidney Replacement Therapies,Renal Replacement Therapies,Replacement Therapies, Kidney,Replacement Therapies, Renal,Therapies, Kidney Replacement,Therapies, Renal Replacement