F.J.C. leads the ISN’s SharE-RR initiative. A.K.B. received grant funding from the Canadian Institute of Health Research and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada in addition to consultancy fees from Amgen Canada, Bayer and Otsuka. D.N. is the director of informatics research at the UK Kidney Association. S.B. is chair of the Scottish Renal Registry. The other authors declare no competing interests.