Quality Assurance in Dialysis
- List Price: $319.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 2
- Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
- Publish date: 03/01/1999
Description:
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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