Opis: Quality of Life Following Renal Failure - McGee

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.An introduction to the issues and challenges; options in medical management; psychological, social and vocational impact; assessment of QoL; a guide to available measures; cognitive and behavioural difficulties; illness cognitions - implications for treatment; dilemmas posed by organ-failure technology; health-care resource allocation; bias in the allocation of treatment; education of health professionals; psychological care of renal patients; education for self-care using CAPD; consequences of transplantation failure; renal failure in children; staff difficulties in the renal unit; patient and family support groups; dietary issues for renal patients; improving quality of life - ways forward.

Szczegóły: Quality of Life Following Renal Failure - McGee

Tytuł: Quality of Life Following Renal Failure
Autor: McGee
Producent: Harwood Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9783718655014
Rok produkcji: 1994
Ilość stron: 305
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.87 kg

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