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Measurement properties of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) used in adult patients with chronic kidney disease: A systematic review.
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63 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 138 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Quality of Measurement Properties in Patient Reported Outcomes Used in Adult Liver Transplant Candidates and Recipients: a Systematic Review.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025Pooled it
- Quality-of-life measures and their psychometric properties used in African chronic kidney disease populations: a systematic review using COSMIN methodology.BMC nephrology · 2024Pooled it
- Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and Patient-Reported Experience Measures Within Evaluation Studies of Telemedicine Applications: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- Health-Related Quality of Life during 26-Week Intervention with the New Nordic Renal Diet.Nutrients · 2024Trial
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- Measurement Properties of an Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Patients with Non-Dialysis-Dependent CKD.Kidney360 · 2026Article
- Health-related quality of life in nondialysis CKD patients: a comprehensive description of five-year trajectories among the CKD-REIN cohort.BMC nephrology · 2026Article
- Assessment of the psychometrics properties of the Senegalese kidney disease quality of life - 36 (KDQOL-36) in patients with chronic kidney disease.Patient related outcome measures · 2026Article
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- Effects of Dapagliflozin on Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with CKD.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2026Article
- A guide to uraemic toxicity.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2026Review
- The Influence of Different Kidney Replacement Modalities on Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with ESKD.Kidney360 · 2025Article
- An umbrella review of patient- and carer-reported measures for assessing adult end-of-life care quality outcomes.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Exploring factors associated with Kidney Disease Quality of Life in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease: the Reach-J CKD cohort study.Clinical and experimental nephrology · 2025Article
- Development, Rasch analysis and validation of the kidney symptom burden questionnaire (KSB-Q).Clinical kidney journal · 2025Article
- Impact of arteriovenous fistula aneurysms on a UK dialysis populations' perception of vascular access.BMC nephrology · 2024Article
- Physical activity and exercise in chronic kidney disease: consensus statements from the Physical Exercise Working Group of the Italian Society of Nephrology.Journal of nephrology · 2024Article
- Psychometric properties of the Kidney Disease Quality of Life short form 36 (KDQOL-36) scale for the assessment of quality of life in Colombian patients with chronic kidney disease on dialysis.International urology and nephrology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) can provide valuable information which may assist with the care of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, given the large number of measures available, it is unclear which PROMs are suitable for use in research or clinical practice. To address this we comprehensively evaluated studies that assessed the measurement properties of PROMs in adults with CKD.
methodsFour databases were searched; reference list and citation searching of included studies was also conducted. The COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) checklist was used to appraise the methodological quality of the included studies and to inform a best evidence synthesis for each PROM.
resultsThe search strategy retrieved 3,702 titles/abstracts. After 288 duplicates were removed, 3,414 abstracts were screened and 71 full-text articles were retrieved for further review. Of these, 24 full-text articles were excluded as they did not meet the eligibility criteria. Following reference list and citation searching, 19 articles were retrieved bringing the total number of papers included in the final analysis to 66. There was strong evidence supporting internal consistency and moderate evidence supporting construct validity for the Kidney Disease Quality of Life-36 (KDQOL-36) in pre-dialysis patients. In the dialysis population, the KDQOL-Short Form (KDQOL-SF) had strong evidence for internal consistency and structural validity and moderate evidence for test-retest reliability and construct validity while the KDQOL-36 had moderate evidence of internal consistency, test-retest reliability and construct validity. The End Stage Renal Disease-Symptom Checklist Transplantation Module (ESRD-SCLTM) demonstrated strong evidence for internal consistency and moderate evidence for test-retest reliability, structural and construct validity in renal transplant recipients.
conclusionsWe suggest considering the KDQOL-36 for use in pre-dialysis patients; the KDQOL-SF or KDQOL-36 for dialysis patients and the ESRD-SCLTM for use in transplant recipients. However, further research is required to evaluate the measurement error, structural validity, responsiveness and patient acceptability of PROMs used in CKD.
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