Quality of life in Nephrology and peritoneal dialysis: bringing the person back to the center of the prescription

The term "Quality", in itsvarious definitions and meanings,refers to a subjective concept and contrasts with that of quantity, in fact indicating a specific characteristic, a merit, a distinctive quality of someone or something. The time of globalization, enabled by technological innovations and fundamentally by the birth of the web (fifty years have now passed since its birth), throughthe unification of markets, has pushed towardsthe need to cling to standardized categories that are measurable and understandable to everyone equally, regardless of the socio-cultural substratum and consequently sacrificed the conceptof quality in favor of quantity. However, in the healthcare sector, being characterized by a dimension of suffering, it is very important to always keep in mind the care of the individual person and the subjective needs of that individual.