Abstract
It is universally assumed among health care professionals in nephrology that compliance to diet and fluid restrictions predicts survival on chronic dialysis. The consequences of noncompliance are more immediate and potentially lethal than in every other chronic disease syndrome. In one of the first clinical studies in this area, eight of the ten fatalities were patients who abused the fluid and dietary regimens.1 Inasmuch as the suicide rate is noted to be far higher than that of the healthy adult population and that nearly all patients abuse their restrictions, noncompliance is tacitly or explicitly linked to patient suicide.2
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Armstrong, S., Woods, A. (1983). Patient Self-Reported Adjustment and Health Beliefs in Compliant versus Noncompliant Hemodialysis Patients. In: Levy, N.B., Mattern, W., Freedman, A.M. (eds) Psychonephrology 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6669-8_7
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