Developments in Nephrology

1. Evidence-Based Medicine as a Strategy for Improving the Quality of Clinical Decision Making for Dialysis Patients; D. Churchill. 2. A Continuous Quality Improvement Paradigm for Health Care Networks; E. Lowrie. 3. Process for Initiating and Maintaining Continuous Quality Improvement in the ESRD Setting; G. Hohner, D. Fender. 4. Choice of Statistical Models for Assessing the Clinical Outcome of the Efforts to Provide High Quality Care for the ESRD Patient; E. Vonesh. 5. Assigning Severity Indices to Outcome; N. Amin. 6. The Role of Quality Assurance in Preventing Legal Actions; J. O'Neill. 7. Quality Criteria for the Clinical Record; S. Williams, et al. 8. Global Vigilance as a Government-Mediated Method for Monitoring Quality of Dialysis Products; P. McDonnell, R. Thuma. 9. Regulatory Environment & Government Impact on Quality of Dialysis Products; S. Hoff, R. Newman. 10. Global Spectrum of Quality Assurance in the Provision of Dialysis; B. Allen. 11. Clinical Quality of the Patient at Onset of Dialysis Treatment; T. Alp Ikizler, R. Hakim. Patient and Therapy Perspectives: Choosing the Patient: Is Better Worse? C. Kjellstrand. Implications of Death in the First Year of Dialysis with Regard to Quality of Care in the Pre-ESRD Period; J. Tattersall. 14. Quality of Life Assurance in Hemodialysis; R. Lindsay. 15. Dialysis in the Home and Its Impact on Quality of Life; C. Blagg. 16. Selection of Adequacy Criteria Models for Hemodialysis; B. Clark. 17. Water Quality for Hemodialysis; P. Keshaviah. 18. Hemodialyzer Reuse and the Quality of Care; B.V.R. Murthy, B. Pereira. 19. The Impact of Membrane Selection on Quality of Care; L.W. Henderson. 20. Selection of Transport Parameters in Judging Membrane Performance; L.W. Henderson. 21. Quality Systems in the Dialysis Center: Peritoneal Dialysis; B. Prowant. 22. Selection of Adequacy Criteria-Models for Peritoneal Dialysis; R. Villano, et al. 23. Choice of Biocompatibility Criteria for Peritoneal Dialysis Solutions; C. Holmes. 24. The Impact of Sterilization Methods on the Quality of Peritoneal Dialysis Solutions; L. Martis. 25. Quality Assurance in the Treatment of Acute Renal Failure; A.A. Kaplan. 26. Quality Assurance in Renal Transplantation; R.W. Steiner.