Renal Association Clinical Practice Guideline on Anaemia of Chronic Kidney Disease

This clinical practice guideline provides recommendations on the management of anaemia of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and serves as an update of the 4th edition module published online in 2007. The recommendations in this update have been graded using the modified GRADE system to indicate both the strength of each recommendation (strong or weak) and level of evidence for the recommendation (A–D) [1, 2]. As in the previous module The Renal Association (RA) endorses the NICE Guidelines for Anaemia Management in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) 2006 [3]. These guidelines are an updated version of the previous ‘Complications of CKD Guidelines – Anaemia Section’. For this updated version, a systematic literature review was performed using MEDLINE & PUBMED, focusing on the topics of: