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Brown, Edwina A.

End of life care in nephrology : from advanced disease to bereavement / Edwina Brown, E. Joanna Chambers, Celia Eggeling. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xxv, 305 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. - Oxford medical publications Oxford specialist handbooks in advancing disease .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

End-stage renal disease -- Comorbidity -- Complications of end-stage renal disease -- Causes of death in end-stage renal disease -- Health-related quality of life in end-stage renal disease -- The management of pain -- Non-pain symptoms in end-stage renal disease -- Recognizing dying -- Communicating with patients and families -- The place of supportive and palliative care in end-stage renal disease -- Ethical and legal considerations -- End of life care -- Spritual and religious care -- Caring for the carers -- Drug doses in advanced chronic renal disease / by Wendy Lawson.

9780199211050 (flexicover : alk.paper) 0199211051 (flexicover : alk.paper)


Chronic renal failure--Palliative treatment.
Chronic renal failure--Patients--Care.
Terminal care.
Kidney Failure, Chronic--Handbooks.
Palliative Care--methods--Handbooks.
Terminal Care--methods--Handbooks.

RC918.R38 / B76 2007

616.614029 / B877

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