Quality of Life Following Renal Failure

This text brings together multidisciplinary expertise on QoL and renal medicine. It has the explicit focus of improving QoL for renal patients. Contributors represent clinical and health psychologists, dieticians, health economists, health policy-makers, nurses, nephrologists, paediatric nephrologists, pharmacists, psychiatrists, psychopharmacologists, renal association co-ordinators and sociologists. Central chapters in the book provide a guide to the complexities of conceptualizing and measuring QoL with a view to facilitating appropriate developments and their evaluation within renal medicine.