Open AccessDesign and Rationale of Health-Related Quality of Life and Patient-Reported Outcomes Assessment in the Frequent Hemodialysis Network Trials
Author(s) -
Manisha Jhamb,
Manjula Kurella Tamura,
Jennifer Gassman,
Amit X. Garg,
Robert M. Lindsay,
Rita S. Suri,
George Ting,
Fredric O. Finkelstein,
Scott R. Beach,
Paul L. Kimmel,
Mark Unruh
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
blood purification
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1421-9735
pISSN - 0253-5068
DOI - 10.1159/000321855
Subject(s) - medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , blinding , physical therapy , population , clinical trial , psychological intervention , beck depression inventory , psychiatry , anxiety , nursing , environmental health
End-stage renal disease patients experience significant impairments in health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Testing various strategies to improve patient HRQOL in multicenter clinical trials, such as the Frequent Hemodialysis Network (FHN) trials is vitally important.