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.