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Practice guidelines for haemodialysis in Egypt

Correspondence to:
Dr M F Allam, Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbassia 11566, Cairo, Egypt; fm2faahm@uco.es

Accepted 17 September 2007

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End-stage renal disease is one of the main health problems in Egypt. Currently, haemodialysis represents the main mode for treatment of chronic kidney disease stage 5 (CKD5), previously called end-stage renal disease or chronic renal failure.

Applying international guidelines for haemodialysis in Egypt might not be suitable or feasible, because of different health systems and lack of resources. Previously, the Egyptian Society of Nephrology has developed management guidelines for haemodialysis, especially cornering personnel items. This called for developing the Egyptian guidelines for basic haemodialysis practice in different facilities.

Clinical practice guidelines often grade the "strength" of their recommendations according to the robustness of the supporting research evidence.¹ Accordingly, the Egyptian guidelines were adopted from the standards developed by The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (Canada), The National Kidney Foundation (USA), The Clinical Standards Board for Scotland (Scotland) and The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (Canada). . . . [Full text of this article]