HRQoL scales | No. of patients | Mean (SD) | Meanb (Joshi et al. 2010) [21] |
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Kidney disease-specific | |||
 Symptoms | 310 | 85.4 (17.38) | N/A |
 Effects of Kidney Disease | 309 | 85.4 (19.00) | N/A |
 Burden of Kidney Disease | 304 | 59.7 (33.99) | N/A |
 Work Status | 311 | 49.2 (35.35) | N/A |
 Cognitive Function | 311 | 85.2 (18.14) | N/A |
 Quality of Social Interaction | 311 | 83.7 (18.85) | N/A |
 Sexual Function | 113 | 78.1 (28.67) | N/A |
 Sleep | 311 | 67.9 (21.79) | N/A |
 Social Support | 311 | 80.1 (22.69) | N/A |
SF-36 Scoresa | |||
 Physical functioning (PF) | 310 | 45.3 (10.81) | 47.47 |
 Role-physical (RP) | 309 | 45.6 (11.75) | 44.53 |
 Bodily pain (BP) | 311 | 48.9 (12.37) | 49.95 |
 General health (GH) | 311 | 40.1 (13.10) | 38.83 |
 Vitality (VT) | 311 | 45.4 (13.06) | 46.53 |
 Social Functioning (SF) | 311 | 50.5 (11.98) | 45.22 |
 Role-emotional (RE) | 309 | 48.8 (10.91) | 49.91 |
 Mental health (MH) | 311 | 52.7 (11.82) | 49.13 |
EQ-5D utility | 309 | 0.8 (0.24) | N/A |
EQ-VAS | 296 | 69.0 (18.70) | N/A |