CSN / CANA (Canadian Association of Nephrology Administrators) - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Funded by The Kidney Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in partnership with the Canadian Society of Nephrology

CSN / CANA (Canadian Association of Nephrology Administrators) Timing of Dialysis symposium

Braden Manns, PI, CANN-NET

CANN-NET Scope

1) Defining best practice for patients with

kidney disease

2) Ensuring best practice through appropriate

and efficient knowledge delivery

3) Improving future best practice through

generation of urgently needed new information on how to optimally manage patients with kidney disease

CANN-NET Partners and Knowledge Users

Organizational Structure

Priorities for Knowledge Translation

Priority areas

 Timing of dialysis initiation  Increasing appropriate use of home dialysis  Management of pediatric nephrotic syndrome

Why?

 Wide variation in practice  New knowledge  Impact for patients, and health care system

Clinical trials scientific committee

Priority areas

 Optimal management of cardiovascular risk in dialysis

• Impact of eplerenone in hemodialysis patients
• Impact of different phosphate targets in hemodialysis

Protocol review:

 9 protocols reviewed to date  3 Fully endorsed, 5 letters of support  3 funded by national funding agencies Please send your RCT protocols for review (www.CANN-NET.ca )

Agenda

Time Topic Speaker 10:30 Overview Braden Manns, Calgary 10:35 Review Current Practice Regarding Timing of Dialysis Initiation Manish Sood, Winnipeg Adeera Levin, Vancouver 10:55 Perspectives of Nephrology Administrators Rebecca Harvey, Toronto (Vice-President, ORN) 11:10 CSN / CANN-NET Guidelines on Timing of Dialysis Initiation Gihad Nesrallah, Toronto 11:25 Knowledge to action cycle applied to Timing of Dialysis Initiation Joanne Kappel, Saskatoon Manish Sood, Winnipeg 11:40 Questions All