KDQOL-36 and the interdisciplinary team.

Social workers are challenged with integrating the Kidney Disease Quality of Life -36 survey results into meaningful intervention for the patient and interdisciplinary team. To face this challenge, the social worker and interdisciplinary team need an understanding of the background and research of quality of life measures, a process for completion of the survey, a tool to score the survey, and finally a process for interdisciplinary development of goals based on survey results. This article reviews the conditional requirements for administering a quality of life survey and the model used to introduce the survey to center practice.