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European Best Practice Guidelines (EBPG)

Website: www.ndt-educational.org/guidelines.asp  

Guideline Development Process:

  1. Workgroup selection
  2. Generation of questions to guide literature search
  3. Evidence review by extensive literature search using Medline and Embase
  4. Critical appraisal and grading of evidence by workgroup
  5. Based on the consensus of the Work Group, a set of guidelines are developed to address areas supported by key findings in the evidence report.
  6. Open review from ERA-EDTA membership
  7. Workgroup finalizes guidelines and published in peer-reviewed journal

Title/Publication

Topics Covered

Publication Date

Coordinator

EBPG for the Management of Anaemia in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure
Published: Nephrol Dial Transplant (2004) 19 [Suppl 2]:
  1. Anaemia Evaluation
  2. Targets for anaemia treatment
  3. Treatment of renal anaemia
  4. Failure to respond to treatment

May, 2004

Chair: Francesco Locatelli

European Best Practice Guidelines for Peritoneal Dialysis

Published: Nephrol Dial Transplant (2005) 20 [Suppl 9]:
  1. General guidelines
  2. The initiation of dialysis
  3. Peritoneal access
  4. Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis delivery systems
  5. Peritoneal dialysis solutions
  6. Automated peritoneal dialysis
  7. Adequacy of peritoneal dialysis
  8. Nutrition in peritoneal dialysis
  9. PD and transplantation

December, 2005

Chair: Raymond T. Krediet

European Best Practice Guidelines for Haemodialysis (Part 1)
Published: Nephrol Dial Transplant (2002) 17 [Suppl 7]:
  1. Measurement of renal function, when to refer and when to start dialysis        
  2. Haemodialysis adequacy         
  3. Biocompatibility        
  4. Dialysis fluid purity        
  5. Chronic intermittent haemodialysis and prevention of clotting in the extracorporal system        
  6. Haemodialysis-associated infection        
  7. Vascular disease and risk factors

July, 2002

Chair: Michele Kessler

European Best Practice Guidelines for Renal Transplantation  (Part 2)
Published: Nephrol Dial Transplant (2002) 17 [Suppl 4]:
  1. Long-term management of the transplant recipient

April, 2002

Chair: François Berthoux

European Best Practice Guidelines for Renal Transplantation  (Part 1)
Published: Nephrol Dial Transplant (2000) 15 [Suppl 7]:
  1. Evaluation, Selection, and Preparation of the Potential Transplant Recipient
  2. Evaluation and Selection of Donors     
  3. The Transplant Recipient from Initial Transplant Hospitalization to 1 Year Post Transplant

December, 2000

Chair: François Berthoux