UK Renal Registry 18th Annual Report: Introduction.

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 11th Annual Report (December 2008): Chapter 2 Introduction to the 2008 UK Renal Registry Report.

The UK Renal Registry (UKRR) is part of the UK Renal Association and provides independent, professionally led, audit and analysis of renal replacement therapy (RRT) in the UK. The Registry is funded directly by participating renal centres through an annual capitation fee, currently £17 per patient per annum (2008). The Registry receives quarterly electronic data extracts from information system...

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 18th Annual Report: Appendix B Definitions and Analysis Criteria.

The take-on population is defined as all patients over 18 who started RRTat UK renal centres and did not have a recovery lasting more than 90 days within 90 days of starting RRT. The treatment timeline is used to define take-on patients as follows. If a patient has timeline entries from more than one centre then these are all combined and sorted by date. Then, the first treatment entry gives th...

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