Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Acute kidney injury in adults" and "Society guideline links: Nephrotic syndrome in children" and "Society guideline links: Proteinuria in children".)

International

●International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD): Guidelines for guidelines for peritoneal dialysis in acute kidney injury (paediatrics), update (2020)

●Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO): Clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury (2012)

Europe

●European Renal Best Practice (ERBP): A position statement on the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) clinical practice guidelines on acute kidney injury – Part 1: Definitions, conservative management and contrast-induced nephropathy (2012)

●European Pediatric Peritoneal Dialysis Working Group: Renal replacement therapy for acute renal failure in children – European guidelines (2004)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on acute kidney injury – Prevention, detection and management (2019)

●National Health Service (NHS) England: Guidance for clinicians managing children at risk of, or with, acute kidney injury (2016)

●NICE: Quality standard on acute kidney injury (2014)

Japan

●[In English] Japan Society of Nephrology (JSN), Japan Intensive Care Medicine Society (JSICM), The Japanese Society of Dialysis Medicine (JSDT), Japan Acute Blood Purification Council, Japan Society of Children's Nephrology (JSPN): The Japanese clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury, 2016 (published 2018)

●[In Japanese] JSN, JSICM, JSDT, Japan Acute Blood Purification Council, JSPN: Clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury (2016)