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Table 1 Strategies and costs of assistance

From: Assisted peritoneal dialysis: strategies and outcomes

Country

Type of asPD provided

Paid caregiver

Costs

France [20]

CAPD/ APD

Private nurse reimbursed directly by the French Healthcare insurance

CAPD: 23,400 € /patient/year

 

(up to 4 visits/daily)

 

APD: 18,200 € /patient/year

Denmark [22]

APD (up to 2 visits daily)

Community nurses or nursing home staff

APD: 54 €/hourly

   

16,178 € /patient/year

Canada, Ontario [20]

CAPD/APD (up to 2 visits/day)

Home care nurses

Additional cost of providing assistance 12,000 $ CA (median 4.6 visits/week)

Belgium [11]

CAPD/APD

Registered nurses (reimbursed by patient’s health insurance provider)

CAPD: 9360 € /patient/year (regardless the number of exchanges)

   

APD: 5356 € /patient/year (for 2 visits/day)

Spain (Canary island) [11]

CAPD/APD

Nurses

20 €/ day (7280 €/patients/year)

Italy (Milano) [28]

CAPD/APD

Health care workers publicly paid

 

United Kingdom [27]

APD (1 visit/daily)

Health care workers

 

Canada, British Columbia [23]

APD

Trained caregiver with no prerequisite of clinical or heath care certification

Additional cost of providing assistance 15,000 $ CA

Italy (Alba) [30]

APD/CAPD

Video dialysis

 

China [27,28,29]

CAPD

Family members, domestic workers (paid by the employer), nursing home staff

 
  1. AsPD: assisted peritoneal dialysis; CAPD: continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis; APD: automated peritoneal dialysis