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First Online: 27 February 2017

Competing interests

: L.S.C. has received consulting fees from Astute Medical, Nxstage Medical and Bard Medical. R.B has received research support from Baxter Medical. A.B. has received research support from Astute Medical, INC and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. S.L.G. has received grants from Gambro Renal Products, VitaFlo, Mallinckrodt, and Alexion; grants and personal fees from Baxter Healthcare, Astute Medical, Bellco, AM Pharma, and La Jolla Pharmaceuticals; and personal fees from Bioporto, Akebia, Otsuka, Kaneka, and MediBeacon, all outside the submitted work. S.M.B. has received consulting fees from Baxter and La Jolla Pharmaceuticals. L.F. has received receiving consulting fees from Fresenius, Astute Medical, Eras Pharma, Baxter, and Ortho Clinical. E.H. has received speaker's fees from Alexion and a research grant from Bellco. J.K. has received consulting fees from Nxstage Medical, Astute Medical, Sphingotec and Pfizer. E.M. has received research funding from Relypsa and Fresenius Kabi. R.M. has received consulting fees from Eli Lilly, Spectral, Keryx, Baxter, Ardea, AM Pharma, GSK, CSL Behring, Grifols, Astute Inc. Fresenius-Kabi, Quark, Ferring Research, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Johnsons and Johnson and DURECT, and has received research support from iSAEC, Relypsa, Fresenius-Kabi and Fresenius. M.O. has received speaker honoraria and research funding from Fresenius Medical Care, and payment for advisory services from Baxter/Gambro. P.M.P has received consulting fees from Durect and Baxter. R.W. has received consulting fees from Durect and MedBeacon and unrestricted research support from Baxter. A.Z. has received unrestricted research grants from Fresenius and Astute Medical and lecture fees from Fresenius, Braun, Astute Medical, and Astellas. C.R. has received consulting fees from Astute, Asahi, GE and Baxter. J.A.K. has received consulting fees from Astute Medical, Atoc Bio, Astellas, Bard Medical, Baxter Medical, Bioporto, Grifols, Medibeacon and Nxstage Medical. E.D.S., D.B., D.C., Z.E., R.L.F., S.L.K.-G., K.D.L., P.M, M.N., N.P. and M.R. declare no competing interests.