1. Division of Nephrology, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2. Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
3. Institute for Applied Clinical Sciences, Keele University, Keele, UK, and Department of Nephrology, University Hospitals of North Midlands, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
4. Yale University, New Haven, NJ, USA
5. Renal Division, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Deerfield, IL, USA
6. Renal Unit, RTS Versalles, Cali, Colombia
7. ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
8. Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India
9. Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia
10. Instituto Nacional de Cardiología, Mexico City, Mexico
11. Department of Nephrology, Yabuki Hospital, Yamagata, Japan
12. Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Adelaide, Australia, and University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
13. Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
14. Nephrology Department, Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
15. Nephrology, School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
16. Department of Medicine, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
17. Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
18. Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
19. Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine & Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
20. Nephrology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
21. The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
22. Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
23. Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium