Quality Assurance in Dialysis

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Quality assurance: Starting a program in dialysis....Pages 1-9
Patient and therapy perspectives: Choosing the patient “is better worse?”....Pages 11-21
Quality systems in the dialysis center: Peritoneal dialysis....Pages 23-45
Continuous quality improvement in dialysis: Operations and controls for multi-center systems....Pages 47-62
Quality of care in home dialysis....Pages 63-83
Water treatment for hemodialysis....Pages 85-107
The impact of membrane selection on quality assurance in dialysis....Pages 109-131
Quality of life assurance in hemodialysis....Pages 133-149
Dialyzer reuse and the quality of therapy....Pages 151-154
Multicenter trials as a measure for improving the quality of clinical decisions....Pages 155-166
Quality assurance in renal transplantation....Pages 167-190
Quality assurance in dialysis product manufacturing....Pages 191-211
Human resource issues in quality management....Pages 213-223
Quality criteria for the clinical record....Pages 225-238
Continuous quality improvement and the best demonstrated practices program....Pages 239-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-258