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. 2020 Oct 21:7:2054358120949110.
doi: 10.1177/2054358120949110. eCollection 2020.

The CSN COVID-19 Rapid Response Program

Gihad Nesrallah  1   2 , Loreen Gilmour  3 , Adeera Levin  4 , Reem Mustafa  5 , Steven Soroka  6 , Deborah Zimmerman  7
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The CSN COVID-19 Rapid Response Program

Gihad Nesrallah et al. Can J Kidney Health Dis. .

Abstract

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has created unprecedented challenges in caring for individuals living with kidney disease. In response to a growing call for up-to-date information and evidence-informed advice, the Canadian Society of Nephrology has established a COVID-19 Rapid Response Team that will leverage existing evidence and national expertise to inform kidney care practices in the COVID-19 era. Given limited published evidence and compressed timelines, formal clinical practice guidelines are not feasible, and we have adopted rapid review methods to instead provide interim guidance across identified priority areas. In this article, we describe the methodological approach that was applied in developing a first iteration of guidance documents addressing clinical and operational aspects of care for patients treated with in-center hemodialysis, home dialysis, those with advanced chronic kidney disease, those with glomerulonephritis, and those with acute kidney injury. We further describe strategies for maintaining ongoing engagement with the renal community to elicit emerging needs and perspectives as the situation unfolds.

Keywords: CKD (chronic kidney disease); COVID-19; dialysis; interim guidance; rapid recommendations.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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