Rhee, Connie M.
Brunelli, Steven M.
Subramanian, Lalita
Tentori, Francesca
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (K23-DK102903)
Article History
Received: 10 February 2017
Accepted: 10 April 2017
First Online: 21 April 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: CMR has no disclosures to report. SMB is an employee of DaVita Inc. His spouse is employed by AstraZeneca. LS and FT are employees of Arbor Research Collaborative for Health which conducts the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study. The DOPPS Program is supported by Amgen, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, and Baxter Healthcare. Additional support for specific projects and countries is provided by Amgen, AstraZeneca, European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA), German Society of Nephrology (DGfN), Hexal AG, Janssen, Japanese Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (JSPD), Keryx, Proteon, Relypsa, Roche, Società Italiana di Nefrologia (SIN), Spanish Society of Nephrology, and Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma. Public funding and support is provided for specific DOPPS projects, ancillary studies, or affiliated research projects by Australia: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Canada: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Ontario Renal Network, France: Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Thailand: Thailand Research Foundation (TRF), Chulalongkorn University Matching Fund, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital Matching Fund, and the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), United Kingdom: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) via the Comprehensive Clinical Research Network (CCRN), United States: National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). All support is provided without restrictions on publications. FT has also received honorarium/consulting fees from the Renal Research Institute, Dialysis Clinic, Inc. (DCI), Amgen, and Medscape.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors.