This book provides a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of supportive care for the renal patient. An international group of contributors emphasise the continuum of palliative care from the time of diagnosis through to end-of-life care and the issues surrounding withdrawal of dialysis.

• Introduction to ethical case analysis


• 1: David Ansell, S. Risdale and Fergus Caskey: Changing patterns of renal replacement therapy


• 2: E. Joanna Chambers and Edwina Brown: The concept of supportive care for the renal patient


• 3: Maria Da Silva-Gane and Lewis M. Cohen: Planning a renal palliative care programme and its components


• 4: Sara N. Davison, Jean L. Holley and Jane Seymour: Advance care planning in patients with end-stage renal disease


• 5: Terry Feest: What determines a good outcome?: the selection of patients for renal replacement therapy


• 6: Fredric O. Finkelstein and Susan H. Finkelstein: Health-related quality of life and the patient with chronic kidney disease


• 7: Fliss Murtagh and Steven D. Weisbord: Symptoms in renal disease: their epidemiology, assessment and management


• 8: Sara N. Davison, E. Joanna Chambers and Charles J. Ferro: Management of pain in renal failure


• 9: Daniel Cukor, Eileen M. Farrell, Lewis M. Cohen and Paul L. Kimmel: Psychological and psychiatric considerations in patients with advanced renal disease


• 10: Chris Davies and Ira Byock: Spiritual care of the renal patient


• 11: Alastair Hutchison and Helen Hurst: Support of the home dialysis patient


• 12: Lionel U. Mailloux 12.2: Communicating with patients and familyTom Sensky and Celia Eggeling: Initiation, withdrawal and withholding of dialysis: 12.1: Clinical


• 13: Fliss Murtagh and Neil Sheerin: Conservative management of end-stage renal disease


• 14: Lina Johansson and Edwina A. Brown: End-stage renal disease in the older person


• 15: Ken Farrington and E. Joanna Chambers: Death and end-of-life-care in advanced kidney disease