title: Performance assessment of patient on dialysis.
abstract: Patients on dialysis are poorly active and show a low level of physical functioning. Questionnaires and objective measurements of spontaneous physical activity are available as well as complex-expensive or simple-unexpensive tests useful to assess the patient's exercise capacity. Performance assessment unravels patients' capabilities, enables a tailored exercise prescription and provides predictive information on main clinical outcomes and therefore this topic should be of interest for nephrologists. A routinary minimal pool of tests might be usefully performed in a dialysis centre to stratify the patient's risk and to recognize patients in need of exercise training in order to address them to community-based or rehabilitative programs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences - Section of Sport Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Manfredini
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lamberti
mesh_terms: D005080:Exercise Test; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000379:methods*; D051436:Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*