Kidney Function Trajectories and Health Care Costs: Identifying High-Need, High-Cost Patients

• Chi D. Chu,
• Delphine S. Tuot,
• Sri Lekha Tummalapalli

Affiliations

Chi D. Chu

Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California; Department of Medicine, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California; Kidney Health Research Collaborative, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California and San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, California; Division of Nephrology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California; Address for Correspondence: Chi D. Chu, MD, MAS, Division of Nephrology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Ave, Building 100, Rm 342, San Francisco, CA 94110.

Delphine S. Tuot

Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California; Department of Medicine, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California; Division of Nephrology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California

Sri Lekha Tummalapalli

Kidney Health Research Collaborative, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California and San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, California; Division of Healthcare Delivery Science & Innovation, Department of Population Health Sciences, and Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; The Rogosin Institute, New York, New York