Martin M
CMAJ. 1996 Mar 15;154(6):931-3.
The growth in the number of dialysis patients in Canada is causing a critical shortage of resources. The low transplantation rate and an increase in the number of patients, combined with insufficient funding to expand facilities, threatens access to the expensive but life-sustaining therapy. Michel Martin, who recently underwent a kidney transplant, looks at the situation facing dialysis patients in Quebec and Ontario.
加拿大透析患者数量的增长正导致资源严重短缺。移植率低、患者数量增加,再加上用于扩大设施的资金不足,危及到这种昂贵但维持生命的治疗方法的可及性。最近接受肾脏移植的米歇尔·马丁审视了魁北克和安大略省透析患者所面临的情况。