The Primary-Secondary Care Partnership to Improve Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease

Cluster randomised controlled trial of chronic kidney disease nurse practitioners in primary care. Number of GP practices for trial = 46, Number of anonymised records for trial approimately 23,500. All practices are based in the Nene clinical commisssioning group. Mortality, cardiovascular and endstage renal outcomes (dialysis or kidney transplantation) outcomes are available from primary care records. Regional secondary care outcomes for endstage renal disease are linked. Linkage for local secondary care outcomes for cardiovascular outcomes is work in progress. Follow-up 3 to 3.5 years for trial. Extended observational follow-up (upto an additional 2.5 years) available for 38 out of 46 practices. Full trial paper published in https://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/30/7/1261.