Caring for Australians and New Zealanders With Kidney Impairment Guidelines: Rapid Development of Urate Lowering Therapy Guidelines for People With CKD.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The slow transformation of new research findings into clinical guidelines is a barrier to providing evidence-based care. The Caring for Australians and New Zealanders with Kidney Impairment (CARI) guidelines are developing models to improve guideline production, one methodology involves more functional concordance between trial groups, such as the Australian Kidney Trials Network (AKTN) and CARI. The objective of this project was to rapidly produce an evidence-based guideline on urate-lowering therapy in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), in response to new clinical trial publications on the topic by the AKTN.

Methods

To produce a guideline as rapidly as possible, an existing systematic review was utilized as the evidence base, and then updated with the

SUBMITTER: Stanley IK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9727528 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature