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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Kidney Dis. 2015 Jul 23;66(6):1033–1046. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2015.05.020

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

a

Physical function and capacity were not considered symptoms.