UK Renal Registry 15th annual report: Appendix C renal services described for non-physicians.

UK Renal Registry 18th Annual Report: Appendix C Renal Services Described for Non-physicians.

1.2 At least 13,000 people die from kidney (renal) disease in the UK each year, although this is an underestimation as many deaths of patients with renal failure are not recorded as such in mortality statistics. Kidney diseases can occur suddenly (‘acute’) or over months and years (‘chronic’). Chronic kidney disease is relatively common, with the majority of patients being elderly and having mi...

UK Renal Registry 15th annual report: Appendix E methodology for estimating catchment populations of renal centres in England for dialysis patients.

Providing accurate centre-level incidence and prevalence rates for patients receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT) in the UK was limited until the 13th Annual Report by the difficulty in estimating the catchment population from which the RRT population was derived. One reason for this was that the geographical boundaries separating renal centres are relatively arbitrary and dependent upon a ...

UK Renal Registry 18th Annual Report: Appendix A The UK Renal Registry Statement of Purpose.

1. Executive summary 2. Introduction 3. Statement of intent 4. Relationships of the UK Renal Registry 5. The role of the UK Renal Registry for patients 6. The role of the UK Renal Registry for nephrologists 7. The role of the UK Renal Registry for trust managers 8. The role of the UK Renal Registry for commissioning agencies 9. The role of the UK Renal Registry in national quality assurance sch...

UK Renal Registry 19th Annual Report: Appendix G UK Renal Registry dataset specification.

UK Renal Registry 19th Annual Report: Appendix B Definitions and Analysis Criteria.