Open AccessDeveloping a self-administered CKD symptom assessment instrument
Author(s) -
Rajender Agarwal
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfp426
Subject(s) - medicine , kidney disease , intensive care medicine , physical therapy
Current disease-centred therapies for CKD focus on preserving the GFR but often ignore patient-reported symptoms. This purpose of this report is to describe the development of an instrument to measure the presence and severity of a wide range of symptoms commonly attributable to CKD.
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