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Article: KDOQI clinical practice guidelines and clinical practice recommendations--2006 updates.
- Article from:
- Nephrology Nursing Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
- Author:
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The 2006 Hemodialysis (HD) Adequacy, Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Adequacy, and Vascular Access KDOQI updates were published recently (NKF, 2006). These new documents have been divided into three major areas, which are discussed below.
Overview of Sections
The first section consists of guideline statements that are evidence based. The second section is a new section that consists of opinion-based statements that are called "clinical practice recommendations." The clinical practice recommendations are opinion based and are based on the expert consensus of the Work Group members. The intention of the Work Group members was that the guideline statements in ...