Functional assessment and rehabilitation service specifications for patients with chronic kidney disease

With the decline of renal function, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) will encount different degrees of dysfunction, which greatly increases the risk of poor prognosis and brings economical and nursing burden to the family and society. The main strategy is to implement the renal rehabilitation program (RRP) to enable patients with CKD to achieve the best occupational potential, functional status and quality of life. However, the RRP of CKD patients in China started relatively late, and the professional knowledge of rehabilitation treatment of medical staff in Nephrology Department is insufficient. Moreover, most CKD management centres do not provide necessary RRP for patients. Currently, unified standards for functional assessment and rehabilitation training services specification for CKD patients are lacking. This specification is conducive to guiding CKD management centres to carry out RRP, and help centres that have already conducted RRP to further standardise its implementation.