Overview

The second edition of Quality Assurance in Dialysis expands the original format in which authors with special expertise in the various aspects of caring for patients with end-stage renal disease were asked to write about how to ensure the quality of that care. As such, this is not a 'how to primer but rather a series of discussions focused on providing the reader with the conceptual tools necessary for insuring that the care they render is of the very highest quality. As in the original edition, much of the writing addresses dialysis in its various forms. There is, in addition, information on providing quality in transplantation from the medical perspective. This expanded text now includes many new chapters that address, for example, the impact of government regulatory bodies on the quality assurance process and new information on adequacy criteria and their use in improving care. Professional and technical personnel involved with delivering care to the end-stage renal failure patient, as well as those involved in training others in this rapidly changing field, will find the perspectives offered here to be an invaluable resource.

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Author:   L.W. Henderson ,  R.S. Thuma
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2nd ed. 1999
Volume:   39
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.791kg
ISBN:  

9789048151134

ISBN 10:   9048151139
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Evidence-based medicine as a strategy for improving the quality of clinical decision making for dialysis patients.- A continuous quality improvement paradigm for health care networks.- Process for initiating and maintaining continuous quality improvement in the ESRD setting.- Choice of statistical models for assessing the clinical outcomes of the efforts to provide high quality care for the ESRD patient.- Assigning severity indices to outcomes.- The role of quality assurance in preventing legal actions.- Quality Criteria for the Clinical Record.- The impact of global vigilance reporting requirements on the quality of dialysis products and services.- Regulatory environment and government impact on the quality of dialysis products.- Global spectrum of quality assurance in the provision of dialysis.- Clinical Quality of the Patient at Onset of Dialysis Treatment.- Patient and Therapy Perspectives: Choosing the Patient “Is better Worse?”.- Quality of care in the pre-ESRD period; impact on survival in the first year of dialysis.- Quality of life assurance in hemodialysis.- Hemodialysis in the home and its impact on quality of life.- Selection of adequacy criteria models for hemodialysis.- Water treatment for hemodialysis.- Reuse of dialyzers — implications for adequacy of dialysis.- The impact of membrane selection on quality assurance in dialysis.- Selection of transport parameters in judging membrane performance.- Quality in peritoneal dialysis: achieving improving outcomes.- The critical role of prescription management in a peritoneal dialysis program.- Criteria for biocompatibility testing of peritoneal dialysis solutions.- The Impact of Sterilization Methods on the Quality of Peritoneal Dialysis Solutions.- Quality assurance in the treatment of acute renalfailure.- Quality assurance in renal transplantation.

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