title: A patient's guide to kidney failure.
abstract: Imagine how bewildered you would feel if you had just been told by a doctor or a nurse that your kidneys had failed and that you would shortly require dialysis. This news is broken to 80 per million of the population or approximately 4000 people in the United Kingdom each year, and must come as a dreadful blow to each and every patient, their family, carers and friends.
authors.affiliation: Renal Unit, Dumfries Infirmary, Scotland, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carson
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Isles
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010174:Pamphlets; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D010531:Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory / Q000379:methods; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000379:methods; D013664:Teaching Materials / Q000592:standards*