Other Guidelines

On this page you will find a variety of guidelines created in collaboration with other societies, and relevant guidelines from other organisations collected here for your convenience. More about RA Clinical Practice Guidelines.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), produces clinical guidelines for England and Wales, covering many areas of medicine. We have collected relevant ones below for convenience, but more information is available at the NICE website. Similiarly, the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) produces guidelines for Scotland. Again more information is available on the SIGN website. Other major renal guideline sites include KDIGO, KDOQI and CARI.

The British Association of Paediatric Nephrology has adapted the Renal Association dialysis guidelines for children; these can be read at www.bapn.org/clinical_standards.html

The British Committee for Standards in Haematology, a subcommittee of the British Society of Haematology has produced guidelines on surveillance, diagnosis and management of lymphoproliferative disorder in adult solid organ transplant recipients and these can be read at
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/publishedHO.asp?tf=Haemato-Oncology&status=

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Renal Association Guidelines created in collaboration with other Societies and Guidelines from Other Organisations

Guidelines from Other Organisations

These guidelines are collected here for your convenience. Where a web link is provided, you are strongly recommended to go directly to that weblink, in case newer versions of the guideline have been posted.

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2011

British Consensus Guideline on Intravenous Fluid Therapy for Adult Surgical Patients

It has been brought to our attention that Professor Joachim Boldt is under investigation following allegations of research fraud. We remain open minded as to whether these allegations will prove to be true or false and offer no comment on that issue. However, since this Guideline used six of his references as background (among 142 in total) we have scrutinised the text and recommendations, after removing the Boldt references, to see if changes were needed. Our text and recommendations remain exactly as before and one review reference has been added to replace the Boldt references that have been removed. Removal of his references from this Guideline therefore has had absolutely no impact on our recommendations for patient care. This new version of the Guideline, from which the Boldt references have been removed, replaces the previous version.

  1. British Consensus Guideline on Intravenous Fluid Therapy for Adult Surgical Patients
    .pdf file (393.18 KB)
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  2. BTS and RA Guideline on Living Donor Kidney Transplantation, 3rd Edition, April 2011
    .pdf file (1.96 MB)
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  3. Consensus guidelines for the prescription and administration of oral bowel cleansing agents (January 2011)
    .pdf file (274.37 KB)
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2010
  1. BTS TB guidelines in Renal Disease
    .pdf file (352.98 KB)
    Guidelines For The Prevention And Management Of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection And Disease In Adult Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
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  2. Implementation of the KDIGO guideline on the management of the kidney transplant recipient in the UK 2010
    .pdf file (83.71 KB)
    How do the KDIGO Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Care of Kidney Transplant Recipients apply to the UK?
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2009
  1. Implementation of the KDIGO CKD-MBD guideline in the UK 2009
    .pdf file (89.54 KB)
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  2. aHUS Clinical Practice Guidelines 2009
    .pdf file (263.23 KB)
    Joint Renal Association, British Committee for Standards in Haematology and British Transplantation Society guidelines.
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  3. KDIGO Hepatitis C Guideline - Commentary from the Renal Association 2009
    .pdf file (77.65 KB)
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  4. Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis guidelines (UK EPS Group) Final July 2009
    .pdf file (159.18 KB)
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  5. Oral Bowel Cleansing Agents Algorithm 2009
    .pdf file (63.92 KB)
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2008
  1. NICE 73 Chronic Kidney Disease, 2008
    .pdf file (1.38 MB)
    More information: http://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/CG73
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  2. Haematuria - RA-BAUS consensus guideline 2008
    .pdf file (86.23 KB)
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  3. SIGN 103 Chronic Kidney Disease, 2008
    .pdf file (562.69 KB)
    More information at: http://www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/fulltext/103/index.html
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2007 and earlier
  1. NICE TA99 Renal Transplant Immunosuppression (adolescents and children), 2006
    .pdf file (224.36 KB)
    More information: http://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/TA99
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  2. NICE 39 Renal Anaemia, 2006
    .pdf file (1.13 MB)
    More information: http://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/CG39
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  3. SIGN 55 Diabetic Nephropathy, 2001 (Updated 2005)
    .pdf file (971.19 KB)
    More information: http://www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/fulltext/55/index.html 2005 update at: http://www.sign.ac.uk/pdf/2005diabetesreport.pdf
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  4. NICE 34 Hypertension, 2006
    .pdf file (1.20 MB)
    More information: http://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/CG34
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  5. NICE TA48 Home Haemodialysis, 2002
    .pdf file (124.30 KB)
    More information: http://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/TA48
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  6. NICE TA49 Central Line Insertion, 2002
    .pdf file (128.19 KB)
    More information: http://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/TA49
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  7. SIGN 88 Urinary Tract Infection in Adults, 2006
    .pdf file (517.64 KB)
    More information: http://www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/fulltext/88/index.html
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  8. NICE TA85 Renal Transplant Immunosuppression (adults), 2004
    .pdf file (212.46 KB)
    More information: http://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/TA85
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