Intensive care admissions for adults with treated kidney failure in Australia: A national retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Limited data are available on intensive care unit (ICU) admissions for adults receiving kidney replacement therapy (KRT - dialysis or transplantation) in Australia. Our aim is to characterise admissions for patients receiving long-term dialysis and kidney transplant recipients relative to the general intensive care population in Australia.

Design

Retrospective registry-based data linkage cohort study.

Setting

All ICUs in Australia that reported to the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Adult Patient Database, 1 January 2018-31 December 2020.

Participants

All admissions were included. Data were deterministically linked to the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry. Subgroups analysed were defined by sex, age

SUBMITTER: Keuskamp D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11919582 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature