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Patient Information

The European Renal Association – European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) is convinced that the best treatment for the individual patient can only be  obtained by a joined decision between the physician and the patient.
This can only be done if the patient is well informed. To help patients find the correct information, ERA-EDTA has decided to produce a special webpage for patients with information on kidney disease and the treatment of it.

Below you will find some documents that can be helpful for you to further expand our understanding of kidney disease. The information documents have been compiled by a branch of ERA-EDTA (called European Renal Best Practice or ERBP) that summarizes available knowledge so that physicians and other people can more easily find out which treatments might work or not. The documents below are patient versions of the documents ERBP produces, and have been carefully edited for content and style to be also understandable for non-medical professionals.

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  1. ERBP Information for patients: General information
  2. ERBP Information for patients: How do I know if a recommendation is really well-established?
  3. ERBP Information for patients: What should my Hemoglobin be?
  4. ERBP Information for patients: What does Hepatitis C mean to me as a CKD patient?
  5. ERBP Information for patients: Are High Flux dialysers better for me than Low Flux ones?
  6. ERBP Information for patients: Are venous catheters safe in terms of Blood Stream Infection?
  7. ERBP Information for patients: Why is it important to regularly test the function of my Peritoneal membrane if I am on PD?
  8. ERBP Information for patients: What sort of dialysis should I choose?

FLYERS

  • PATIENT ERBP flyer: what modality should I choose?
  • PATIENT ERBP flyer: what should I know about central venous catheters?
  • MEDICAL STAFF flyer: diagnosis, prevention and treatment of ERBSI – An ERBP position statement

ARTICLES IN NDT AND CKJ

  • The children of dialysis: live-born babies from on-dialysis mothers in Italy—an epidemiological perspective comparing dialysis, kidney transplantation and the overall population
    Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. (2014) 29 (8): 1578-1586.
  • Caffeine consumption and mortality in chronic kidney disease: a nationally representative analysis
    Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 12 September 2018

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