KDIGO Global Guideline Coordination

To facilitate its mission of promoting coordination, collaboration and integration clinical practice guidelines, KDIGO formed the Guideline Liaison Task Force and the Global Guideline Coordination Group.

Liaison Task Force

The Liaison Task Force was formed as a cooperative effort between nephrology guideline development organizations to act as a link between the guideline groups and KDIGO in order to facilitate coordination of guideline development and methodology. The task force consists of a representative from each of the five primary English language guideline development groups (CARI, CSN, ERBP, KDOQI, & UK–RA), along with the KDIGO representative, who will act as chair.

The primary responsibility of the Task Force members will be as the main conduit of information between the guideline organizations. This communication is critical to global guideline coordination efforts. In addition, task force members will be asked to:

Represent their organization at the annual KDIGO Board guideline review which will occur on the first Friday of December each year
Participate in the KDIGO Global Guideline Coordination Meeting to be held in conjunction with ASN Renal Week each year. In addition to selected KDIGO representatives and the Liaison Task Force members, invitees will include the Presidents of each of the Associations that sponsor the guideline development (ANZSN, ERA-EDTA, NKF, CSN, UK-RA). The objective of this meeting is to keep the new presidents informed about KDIGO activities and collaborative efforts between the groups.
Participate in occasional task force conference calls to share information and coordinate projects that have been identified by the group.
Assist with the continued expansion and updating of the Clinical Practice Guideline database on the KDIGO Website.
The Liaison Task Force members may also be asked to participate in KDIGO Conferences that pertain to guideline methodology and evidence review.
Collaborate with KDIGO to promote dissemination and implementation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines that can improve patient outcomes globally through development and distribution of patient and professional educational tools.

Global Guideline Coordination Group

This group is comprised of the presidents of the five principal organizations that develop nephrology guidelines in English (CARI, CSN, ERBP, KDOQI & UK-RA); the designated representative from each organization who participates in the KDIGO Liaison Task Force. This group has one in person meeting per year during ASN Renal Week. These meetings are structured to allow each of the organizations to share an overview of planned guideline activities and discuss how to coordinate these activities to maximize the efficiency and quality of global guideline development in nephrology.