Multidisciplinary team renal rehabilitation: interventions and outcomes

Multidisciplinary team renal rehabilitation produces positive patient outcomes by broadening the knowledge base and evening out the work load. Rehabilitation is no longer viewed as an extra program to patient care done by a few people but seen as an integral part of the patients' care and dialysis treatment. Focusing on the 5E's of renal rehabilitation developed by the Life Options Rehabilitation Advisory Council, Renal Care Group of the Midwest, Inc has achieved positive clinical patient outcomes, such as meeting dialysis adequacy benchmark goals. Interventions and outcomes of two of the 5E's, education and exercise, are discussed.