Abstract
The 3 year plan for medical care and clinical research of the Policy-Based Medical Service Network of Renal Disease (The Renal-net) among the National Hospitals, and the renal disease database and the pathological conference system are presented in this paper.
Also, recent findings of clinical research of IgA nephropathy and diabetic nephropathy are given in part. The Renal-Net in the national hospitals has been playing an important role in the field of daily medical treatment and cooperative clinical research is advancing to establish the EBM for the purpose of the preventing ESRD (end stage of renal disease).
