History

• The National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF KDOQI) has provided evidence-based clinical guidelines since 1997. Guidelines are set by assembled teams of volunteer physicians and other health-care workers.
  
  

Factors in Guideline Selection

• Guideline development and selection is done on a needs-assessment basis. When considering whether to select a guideline, NKF KDOQI must take into account a number of factors including aspects of care with large variability, new treatments or care strategies that have led to problems and new treatments or care strategies that have made others obsolete.
  
  

Guidelines

• There are thirteen guidelines available for download on the National Kidney Foundation's Web site. A short list of titles includes Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease, Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease, Nutrition in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease: 2008 Update, and Bone Metabolism and Disease in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease.