About the Authors

Nitin V. Kolhe

nitin.kolhe@nhs.net

Affiliation Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom

David Staples

Affiliation Department of Acute Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom

Timothy Reilly

Affiliation Department of Information Management and Technology, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom

Daniel Merrison

Affiliation Department of Information Management and Technology, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom

Christopher W. Mcintyre

Current address: Lilibeth Caberto Kidney Clinical Research Unit, Room ELL-101, London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Hospital, 800 Commissioners Rd E, London, Ontario, N6A5W9, Canada

Affiliations Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom, Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom

Richard J. Fluck

Affiliation Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom

Nicholas M. Selby

Affiliations Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom, Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom

Maarten W. Taal

Affiliations Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom, Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham, Uttoxeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NVK CWM MWT. Performed the experiments: NVK DS NS MWT. Analyzed the data: NVK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM TR. Wrote the paper: NVK DS RJF NS MWT. Data extraction: TR DM.