PKIDS stands for the Pediatric KIDney Stone Care Improvement Network. We are a community of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and researchers who perform collaborative studies of kidney stones at 26 pediatric healthcare systems in North America. The Network arose out of the 8 institutions that comprise PEDSnet, responding to an expressed need from patients and their caregivers to better understand the treatment of kidney stones. Specifically, the comparative effectiveness of different surgical approaches to remove kidney stones, the impact of these surgeries of patients’ lives, and insight into the recovery period.