Product Description The ultimate purpose of quality of life (QoL) research must be to maintain or improve life quality. Renal failure and its technological management raises important QoL issues with implications for many areas in medicine. The pace of technological change has left little time for consideration of psychosocial issues. This is the first text to bring 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 coordinators, and sociologists. The contribution to QoL of training and support for staff and patients, the role of support groups, patients' beliefs and preferences and the achievement of equity in access to treatment are all considered.
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