About KDOQI
The Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative or KDOQI provides evidence-based clinical practice guidelines developed by volunteer physicians and health care providers for all stages of chronic kidney disease and related complications, from diagnosis to monitoring and management.
KDOQI expands the Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative or DOQI, a project begun by the National Kidney Foundation in 1997 and recognized throughout the world for improving the care of dialysis patients.
KDOQI guidelines not only address dialysis but all stages of chronic kidney disease.
To date the NKF has published 10 sets of KDOQI guidelines. The KDOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Kidney Disease: Evaluation, Classification and Stratification (2002) serve as the centerpiece of KDOQI. The classification outlined in these guidelines constitutes the basis for recent interventional guidelines.
KDOQI is committed to keeping guidelines up-to-date by periodically reviewing and updating existing guidelines with new research.
