Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients Infected With HIV: 2014 Update by the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Clinical Infectious Diseases·
- DOI
- 10.1093/cid/ciu617
- PMID
- 25234519
- PMCID
- PMC4271038
- OpenAlex
- W2106473738
- Study type
- Guideline
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Article type
- journal-article
- Integrity
- current
Why this research matters now
The guideline addresses a clinically relevant intersection of HIV and chronic kidney disease and frames clinical decision-making for affected patients.
Structured evidence summary
Research question
The article presents an updated clinical practice guideline focused on managing chronic kidney disease in patients with HIV infection.
Study design
The publication is a clinical practice guideline issued by the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, representing expert consensus guidance rather than primary research.
Population and setting
The guideline targets patients with HIV who have chronic kidney disease, situated within U.S. clinical practice.
Main findings
No specific empirical or quantitative findings are reported in the abstract; it conveys that guideline recommendations are advisory, require physician judgment for individual patients, and are intended to be applied voluntarily.
Public-health relevance
The guideline addresses a clinically relevant intersection of HIV and chronic kidney disease and frames clinical decision-making for affected patients.
Important limitations
The abstract does not state explicit limitations of the guideline. This summary is limited to the supplied single-article abstract and metadata and requires the original full guideline for decision-grade interpretation.
GIDS interpretation
The article is discoverable through topics such as health policy and treatment within HIV-related disease classification. No connection to a live surveillance signal can be drawn from the supplied metadata.
Related GIDS surveillance
Literature context does not validate, explain, or change a surveillance signal. Exact and contextual relationships are shown separately.
Evidence relationships
This article has 10 auditable classifier relationships to diseases, places, topics, and study design.