Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments for Physical Symptoms Among Patients Receiving Maintenance Dialysis: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) receiving dialysis have poor health-related quality of life. Physical symptoms are highly prevalent among dialysis-dependent patients and play important roles in health-related quality of life. A range of symptom assessment tools have been used in dialysis-dependent patients, but there has been no previous systematic assessment of the existing symptom measures' content, validity, and reliability.

Study design

Systematic review of the literature.

Settings & population

Patients with ESRD on maintenance dialysis therapy.

Selection criteria for studies

Instruments with 3 or more physical symptoms previously used in dialysis-dependent patients and evidence of validity or reliability testing.

Intervention

SUBMITTER: Flythe JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4658252 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature