Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes
KDIGO Guidelines
KDIGO publishes the leading international clinical practice guidelines for kidney disease, covering CKD, AKI, transplantation, glomerular disease, anemia, blood pressure, diabetes in CKD, and mineral bone disorder.
Skip the 200-page PDFs. Ask a focused clinical question and get a guideline-grounded answer in seconds.
Trained on publicly available KDIGO guideline content. UKidney and DocuTrain do not host the original documents. Refer to kdigo.org for original publications.
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Questions this assistant can help with
Best use: include guideline area, patient population, kidney function, comorbidities, and the decision you're making. Narrow questions map cleanly to a recommendation or rationale section.
About KDIGO
The international standard for nephrology practice.
KDIGO (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) is an independent nonprofit established in 2003 that develops evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for kidney disease. It is recognized globally as the primary standard-setting body for nephrology, using the GRADE framework to grade evidence and recommendations. Guidelines are updated as evidence evolves, most recently with the 2024 CKD update.
- CKD
- Staging, risk stratification, treatment targets.
- AKI
- Definition, staging, prevention, management.
- Transplantation
- Candidate evaluation, post-transplant monitoring, immunosuppression.
- Glomerular disease
- Nephrotic and nephritic syndrome diagnosis and treatment.
- Anemia in CKD
- ESA therapy, iron management, transfusion.
- Blood pressure in CKD
- BP targets and antihypertensive selection.
- Diabetes in CKD
- Glycemic targets, drug selection, monitoring.
- CKD-MBD
- Phosphate management and vitamin D guidance.
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FAQ
KDIGO assistant questions
What are KDIGO guidelines?
KDIGO publishes international clinical practice guidance for kidney disease, dialysis, transplantation, and related complications.
Can I ask about older and newer KDIGO publications?
Yes. Ask for the disease area and year when that distinction matters, especially when recommendations have changed.
Can the assistant provide treatment thresholds?
It can help locate thresholds and recommendation language, but dosing and treatment decisions should be checked against the original guideline and local policy.
Does this include every KDIGO document?
The assistant reflects the available trained guideline corpus. For official completeness, use KDIGO's publication library.
Are the 2024 KDIGO CKD guidelines included?
The assistant is trained on publicly available KDIGO guideline content. Ask the assistant directly about specific publications or year-specific recommendations.
How is this different from reading the KDIGO PDFs directly?
The assistant lets you ask focused clinical questions and get targeted answers rather than searching through lengthy documents. It's most useful when you have a specific patient scenario or want to locate a particular recommendation quickly.
