Table 3.

Secondary Inclusion Criteria

Dialysis Therapy	Only articles involving patients receiving hemodialysis for management of CKD were considered. This form of renal replacement therapy is widely used and has been readily investigated. Assessing its implications would be valuable.
Exercise Prescription	Only trials that prescribed intradialytic exercise were used. Current research focuses on such exercise therapy and would be important to evaluate.
Outcome Measures	Articles that used a comparable spectrum of physiological, psychological, or functional outcome measures in the assessment of QoL in CKD patients in response to exercise prescription were considered.
Subjects	Only studies of adult patients were included. Renal disease in children is an individual specialty of its own and not the focus of this review.