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Overview of the Alberta Kidney Disease Network

Brenda R Hemmelgarn*1,2, Fiona Clement1, Braden J Manns1,2, Scott Klarenbach3, Matthew T James1,2, Pietro Ravani1,2, Neesh Pannu3, Sofia B Ahmed1, Jennifer MacRae1, Nairne Scott-Douglas1, Kailash Jindal3, Robert Quinn1, Bruce F Culleton1, Natasha Wiebe3, Richard Krause1,4, Laurel Thorlacius5,6 and Marcello Tonelli3

Address: 1Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 3Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 4Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 5Diagnostic Services of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and 6Department of Biochemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Email: Brenda R Hemmelgarn* - brenda.hemmelgarn@albertahealthservices.ca; Fiona Clement - fclement@ucalgary.ca; Braden J Manns - braden.manns@albertahealthservices.ca; Scott Klarenbach - scott.klarenbach@ualberta.ca; Matthew T James - mjames@ucalgary.ca; Pietro Ravani - pravani@ucalgary.ca; Neesh Pannu - neesh.pannu@ualberta.ca; Sofia B Ahmed - sofia.ahmed@albertahealthservices.ca; Jennifer MacRae - jennifer.macrae@albertahealthservices.ca; Nairne ScottDouglas - nairne.scott-douglas@albertahealthservices.ca; Kailash Jindal - kjindal@ulberta.ca; Robert Quinn - robert.quinn@sunnybrook.ca; Bruce F Culleton - bruce_culleton@baxter.ca; Natasha Wiebe - nwiebe@ualberta.ca; Richard Krause - richard.krause@cls.ab.ca; Laurel Thorlacius - lthorlacius@exchange.hsc.mb.ca; Marcello Tonelli - mtonelli@ualberta.ca * Corresponding author

Published: 19 October 2009 BMC Nephrology 2009, 10:30 doi:10.1186/1471-2369-10-30

Received: 15 July 2009 Accepted: 19 October 2009

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