Table 10. Literature search yield of primary articles for systematic review topics Table 11. Classification of study quality Table 12. GRADE system for grading quality of evidence Table 13. Final grade for overall quality of evidence Table 14. Balance of benefits and harm Table 15. KDIGO nomenclature and description for grading recommendations Table 16. Determinants of strength of recommendation Table 17. The Conference on Guideline Standardization (COGS) checklist for reporting clinical practice guidelines

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Garabed Eknoyan, MD Norbert Lameire, MD, PhD Founding KDIGO Co-Chairs Kai-Uwe Eckardt, MD Immediate Past Co-Chair Bertram L Kasiske, MD KDIGO Co-Chair Omar I Abboud, MD, FRCP Sharon Adler, MD, FASN Rajiv Agarwal, MD Sharon P Andreoli, MD Gavin J Becker, MD, FRACP Fred Brown, MBA, FACHE Daniel C Cattran, MD, FRCPC Allan J Collins, MD, FACP Rosanna Coppo, MD Josef Coresh, MD, PhD Ricardo Correa-Rotter, MD Adrian Covic, MD, PhD Jonathan C Craig, MBChB, MM (Clin Epi), DCH, FRACP, PhD Angel de Francisco, MD Paul de Jong, MD, PhD Ana Figueiredo, RN, MSc, PhD Mohammed Benghanem Gharbi, MD Gordon Guyatt, MD, MSc, BSc, FRCPC David Harris, MD Lai Seong Hooi, MD Enyu Imai, MD, PhD Lesley A Inker, MD, MS, FRCP David C Wheeler, MD, FRCP KDIGO Co-Chair Michel Jadoul, MD Simon Jenkins, MBE, FRCGP Suhnggwon Kim, MD, PhD Martin K Kuhlmann, MD Nathan W Levin, MD, FACP Philip K-T Li, MD, FRCP, FACP Zhi-Hong Liu, MD Pablo Massari, MD Peter A McCullough, MD, MPH, FACC, FACP Rafique Moosa, MD Miguel C Riella, MD Adibul Hasan Rizvi, MBBS, FRCP Bernardo Rodriquez-Iturbe, MD Robert Schrier, MD Justin Silver, MD, PhD Marcello Tonelli, MD, SM, FRCPC Yusuke Tsukamoto, MD Theodor Vogels, MSW Angela Yee-Moon Wang, MD, PhD, FRCP Christoph Wanner, MD Elena Zakharova, MD, PhD