From the development to the clinical application of a questionnaire on the quality of life in dialysis. The experience of the Italian Collaborative DIA-QOL (Dialysis-Quality of Life) Group.

In patients with a chronic disease such as end stage ment of HRQoL is a new possibility and can be of renal disease ( ESRD), for whom cure is not a realistic help in caring chronic and complex patients such as goal, maximizing functioning and well-being should be uremic patients. A brief revision of the nephrological the primary objective of care. Mortality data alone are literature of the last ten years will show the improvean incomplete measure of outcome and patient’s own ments obtained in this field. perception of their health is becoming increasingly important. The interest for the patients perception of their health has largely increased in the last years Brief revision of nephrological literature focused on together with the awareness that such subjective aspects HRQoL require valid methods of analysis [1‐9]. It has been clarified that the concept of health-related quality of On Medline, using appropriate key words to identify life (HRQoL) must be developed on problems selected