Referral patterns and outcomes in noncritically ill patients with hospital-acquired acute kidney injury.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Despite modern treatment, the case fatality rate of hospital-acquired acute kidney injury (HA-AKI) is still high. We retrospectively described the prevalence and the outcome of HA-AKI without nephrology referral (nrHA-AKI) and late referred HA-AKI patients to nephrologists (lrHA-AKI) compared with early referral patients (erHA-AKI) with respect to renal function recovery, renal replacement therapy (RRT) requirement, and in-hospital mortality of HA-AKI.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

Noncritically ill patients admitted to the tertiary care academic center of Lausanne, Switzerland, between 2004 and 2008 in the medical and surgical services were included. Acute kidney injury was defined using the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) classi

SUBMITTER: Meier P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3359001 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature