Data from three separate quality of life studies of end-stage renal disease patients investigated the hypothesis that those patients who have previously experienced the failure of a transplanted kidney are characterized by lower levels of life quality than are patients who have not Multivariate data analyses uniformly failed to support this hypothesis. Likely explanations for the discrepancy between these and other contradictory findings as well as clinical and research implications are presented.
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