Health Care Costs Associated with AKI.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

An understanding of the health care resource use associated with AKI is needed to frame the investment and cost-effectiveness of strategies to prevent AKI and promote kidney recovery.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We assembled population-based cohort of adults hospitalized in Alberta between November of 2002 and March of 2009 without ESRD or an eGFR<15 ml/min per 1.73 m². Outpatient serum creatinine measurements 6 months preceding admission defined baseline kidney function, and serum creatinine during the first 14 days of hospitalization defined Acute Kidney Injury Network stage; kidney recovery defined as serum creatinine within 25% of baseline and independence from dialysis was assessed at 90 days after AKI. Health care

SUBMITTER: Collister D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5672961 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature