Table 1.

Article and instrument selection criteria.

	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Article-level	Studies of patients with end stage renal disease on dialysis who were ≥ 18 years old Reported use of a patient-reported outcome instrument that included physical symptoms	Studies of patients with acute kidney injury or those requiring short-term dialysis Non-English articles Letters and case reports
Instrument- level	Instruments with ≥3 unique physical symptomsa Instruments with psychometric evaluation that included reporting of validity and/or reliability testing results	Instruments focused on a single symptom Instruments with mood or mental health symptoms only Instruments with no retrievable data on validity or reliability

^aPhysical function and capacity were not considered symptoms.