The European Best Practice Guidelines for the @entity417 Management (EBPG) represents the main reference for the treatment of @entity1 with @entity177 ( @entity177 ). This study was developed two years after EBPG's publication in order to evaluate the impact of theses guidelines in the clinical practice. This is an epidemiological, multicentric and prospective study including @entity1 on dialysis and erythropoietin treatment. The aetiology of @entity177 , prevalence and @entity417 treatment, concurrent pathologies and side effects had been evaluated during follow-up. The inclusion period was june-august 2000. @entity1 were evaluated during six months. Two thousands six hundred and eighteen dialysis @entity1 were recruited from different national centres (2,171 on haemodialysis and 447 on peritoneal dialysis). Fifty one percent of haemodialysis @entity1 and forty one percent of @entity1 on peritoneal dialysis started erythropoietin treatment with a basal haemoglobin > 9 g/dL (mean 8.9 g/dL and 9.2 g/dL, respectively). At baseline, 35% of @entity1 had haemoglobin < 11 g/dL (mean 11.4 g/dL), but at the study end, 21.2% had haemoglobin < 11 g/dL (mean 11.8 g/dL). Seventy nine percent of @entity1 were treated with erythropoietin using subcutaneous route: 27.5% with once a week regimen, 33.0% in two weekly doses and 39.5% in three weekly administrations. No differences in doses requirements were showed by administration route. These results seem to support that there already exists a good knowledge of the International Guidelines for the @entity417 management, but there is still a gap between them and the results in the clinical setting. In general erythropoietin treatment starts late and at low haemoglobin levels. However, close monitoring of haemoglobin levels seems to improve @entity1 's outcomes.

[Spanish survey on XXXX management].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients', 'patient'] @entity177 :: ('MESH:D051437', 'Disease') :: ['chronic renal failure', 'CRF'] @entity417 :: ('MESH:D000740', 'Disease') :: ['anaemia', 'Anaemia']
@entity417 :: (MESH:D000740,Disease) :: ['anaemia']
