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Assessing the quality of life of children on dialysis

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Kidney dialysis remains a life-sustaining treatment for youth who have renal failure. Optimum renal replacement therapy requires strict adherence to dialysis prescription, to complex medicine regimens, to diet requirements and restrictions and, to close follow-up with medical providers. While clinical markers of dialysis patient health status (e.g. hematocrit, albumin, growth, infections, hospitalization, and survival), are useful outcome markers, health care providers have become increasingly interested in patient and family perception of quality of life (QOL) as an adjunctive measure of treatment efficacy.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Children’s Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA

    Bradley A. Warady

  2. University Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

    Franz S. Schaefer

  3. Health Science Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Richard N. Fine

  4. Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Steven R. Alexander

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Gerson, A.C., Furth, S.L. (2004). Assessing the quality of life of children on dialysis. In: Warady, B.A., Schaefer, F.S., Fine, R.N., Alexander, S.R. (eds) Pediatric Dialysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1031-3_28

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