'To summarize: an interesting book, well balanced and beautifully printed - please read it, if you treat dialysis patients.' Nephron, 69:2

• 1. Death on hemodialysis: preventable or inevitable?.- 2. Survival of middle-aged dialysis patients in Japan and the US, 1988–89.- 3. Analysis of causes of death and of the direction of management to improve survival. Data from European Renal Association Registry (ERA-EDTA).- 4. Treacherous fantasy: The unfulfilled promise of Kt/V.- 5. ESRD registry statistics on dialysis mortality in Japan.- 6. International comparisons of dialysis survival are meaningless to evaluate differences in dialysis procedures.- 7. Peracetic acid reuse as a risk factor for hemodialysis patient survival.- 8. Twenty-five years of safe reuse.- 9. Reuse accelerates death.- 10. Reuse kills and everyone knows so.- 11. Survival and cardiovascular mortality in type I and type II diabetics with end stage renal disease.- 12. Mortality comparison for diabetic ESRD patients treated with CAPD versus hemodialysis.- 13. The relative contribution of measured variables to death risk among hemodialysis patients.- 14. Short hemodialysis: big trouble in a small package.- 15. Functional and vocational rehabilitation of hemodialysis patients.- 16. Correlates of long-term survival on hemodialysis.- 17. Resuscitate home hemodialysis.- 18. Noncompliance frustrates formulae in maintenance dialysis patients.- 19. The UK dialysis picture revisited.- 20. Blood pressure control: the neglected factor that affects survival of dialysis patients.- 21. Many deaths in hemodialysis patients are preventable.- 22. Epilogue: Lessons from mortality risks and rates.