To keep momentum with the initiative and to discuss openly and pragmatically projects under development, a second QUEST convention will be organised in Vienna (March 11 -12, 2006). In this convention Prof. Christoph Wanner will present a very interesting proposal for an innovative intervention study (QUEST-ANIMA). This is a project aimed at testing the effect of a well planned multifactorial intervention which will focus the attention of renal physicians, and nurses, on the distance between desirable and actually achieved treatment goals in dialysis patients.
The main scope of the Vienna QUEST convention will be that of better identifying the difficulties and the problems that the working groups encountered during the first year of activity and to promote a more intensive communication between and within working groups. I have no doubt that the second convention will be as successful as the first one and that the efforts of building common ground, share ideas, and projects will eventually produce a virtuous cycle alimented by patient application and mutual trust.

C. Zoccali, Chairman of the ERA-EDTA Registry