MON-063 INTEGRATED CHINESE TRADITIONAL THERAPY IN HEMODIALYSIS UNIT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A REDUCED COST OF PATIENT CARE

摘要

Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease often have many comorbidities, such as Diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, or stroke. Frequent hospital visits exhausted patients of and their family. Many studies had reported that Chinese medical therapy might ameliorated symptoms of hemodialysis patients. There was still a lack of effectiveness and medical expenses of integrated Chinese and Western treatment. This study aims to compare the cost of patients who received Integrated Chinese Traditional therapy in the case he- modialysis unit.