Renal replacement therapy

PH3688 / 8796

OpenSAFELY

Jan 26, 2026

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OpenCodelists Phenotype

  1. Overview

    Codelist ID
    opensafely/renal-replacement-therapy
    Version ID
    5b5ed963
    Version Tag
    2020-04-14
    Coding System
    Read codes v3
    Collections
    OpenCodelistPhenotype Library
    Tags
    No data

  2. Definition

    This codelist was taken from OpenCodelists, created by OpenSAFELY. We recommend viewing this Phenotype on the OpenCodelist website to view the most recent version.

    A codelist developed to support identification of people with chronic kidney disease using codes indicating end stage renal disease, dialysis or kidney transplant code.

    © University of Oxford for the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science 2025. This work may be copied freely for non-commercial research and study.

  3. Methodology

    The codelist was developed from a variety of sources

    • Dialysis Code list (Read Code 2) provided by LSHTM (Mcdonald et al - see link below)
    • Relevant CKD codes from QoF clusters
    • Manually curated SNOMED codes

  4. References

    Source Reference

    https://www.opencodelists.org/codelist/opensafely/renal-replacement-therapy/2020-04-14

    References

  5. Clinical Codelist

  6. API

    To Export Phenotype Details:

    FormatAPI
    JSON site_root/api/v1/phenotypes/PH3688/version/8796/detail/?format=json
    R Package

    # Download here

    library(ConceptLibraryClient)


    # Connect to API

    client = ConceptLibraryClient::Connection$new(public=TRUE)


    # Get details of Phenotype

    phenotype_details = client$phenotypes$get_detail(
     'PH3688',
     version_id=8796
    )

    Py Package

    # Download here

    from pyconceptlibraryclient import Client


    # Connect to API

    client = Client(public=True)


    # Get details of Phenotype

    phenotype_detail = client.phenotypes.get_detail(
     'PH3688',
     version_id=8796
    )

    To Export Phenotype Code List:

    FormatAPI
    JSON site_root/api/v1/phenotypes/PH3688/version/8796/export/codes/?format=json
    R Package

    # Download here

    library(ConceptLibraryClient)


    # Connect to API

    client = ConceptLibraryClient::Connection$new(public=TRUE)


    # Get codelist of Phenotype

    phenotype_codelist = client$phenotypes$get_codelist(
     'PH3688',
     version_id=8796
    )

    Py Package

    # Download here

    from pyconceptlibraryclient import Client


    # Connect to API

    client = Client(public=True)


    # Get codelist of Phenotype

    phenotype_codelist = client.phenotypes.get_codelist(
     'PH3688',
     version_id=8796
    )

  7. Version History

    Version IDNameOwnerPublish date
    Renal replacement therapy ieuan.scanlon2026-01-26 23:29