Increasing numbers and improved overall survival of patients on kidney replacement therapy over the last decade in Europe: an ERA Registry study.

"CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT K.J.J. reports grants from the European Renal Association (ERA). All other authors declare no competing interests. The results presented in this paper have not been published previously in whole or part."

"We would like to thank the patients and the staff of the dialysis and transplant units for contributing the data via their national and regional renal registries. Furthermore, we gratefully acknowledge the following registries and persons for their contribution of the data: Austrian Dialysis and Transplant Registry (OEDTR) (F. Engler, R. Kramar, G. Mayer and the Austrian Society of Nephrology); Dutch speaking Belgian Society of Nephrology (NBVN) (M. Couttenye and F. Schroven); French speaking Belgian Society of Nephrology (GNFB) (J.M. des Grottes); Renal Registry Danish Nephrology Registry (DNS) (K. Hommel); Finnish Registry for Kidney Diseases (P. Finne and H. Niemelä); France: The Epidemiology and Information Network in Nephrology (REIN) (C. Couchoud); Hellenic Renal Registry (G. Moustakas); Icelandic End-Stage Renal Disease Registry; Norwegian Renal Registry (A. Åsberg); Swedish Renal Registry (SRR) (K.G. Prütz, M. Evans, S. Schön, T. Lundgren and H. Rydell); Dutch Renal Registry (RENINE) (L. Heuveling and S. Vogelaar); UK Renal Registry (all the staff of the UK Renal Registry and of the renal units submitting data); Scottish Renal Registry (SRR) (all of the Scottish renal units); and the regional registries of Andalusia (SICATA) [P. Castro de la Nuez (on behalf of all users of SICATA)], Aragon (F. Arribas Monzón), Asturias (P. Beltrán, M. Rodríguez, J.R. Quirós and RERCA Working Group), Basque country (UNIPAR) (Á. Magaz, J. Aranzabal, M. Rodrigo and I. Moina), Cantabria (J.C. Ruiz San Millán), Castile and León (M.A. Palencia García), Castile-La Mancha (G. Gutiérrez Ávila and I. Moreno Alía), Catalonia (RMRC) (J. Comas and J. Tort), Community of Madrid (M.I. Aparicio de Madre and F. Tornero Molina), Extremadura [all the renal units (Nephrology and Dialysis)], Galicia (E. Bouzas-Caamaño) and Valencian region (O. Zurriaga); and the other ERA Registry committee members not mentioned above for their advice in the analysis and the drafting of this paper: C. Wanner, P. Ambühl; M. Arnol, J. Harambat, J.E. Sánchez-Alvarez, S.S. Sørensen and E. Vidal; and R. Boenink, and M. Astley in the AMC Registry office for data collection and management. The ERA Registry is funded by the European Renal Association (ERA). This article was written by J.A. Huijben et al. on behalf of the ERA Registry, which is an official body of the ERA. This ERA Registry study was funded by the ERA. The funders had no role in the design of the study and the collection, analyses, interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript."