To facilitate timely diagnosis and rapid treatment initiation for anemia in CKD, the multidisciplinary and interprofessional CKD-anemia treatment team should be aware of the significant impact of anemia on patient quality of life, progression of CKD, and cardiovascular events.

All clinicians managing patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease or heart failure must be aware of the deleterious impacts of concomitant anemia and the established, emerging, and practice-changing role of intravenous (IV) iron therapies.