Healthcare Utilization after Acute Kidney Injury in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Little is known about the long-term burden of AKI in the pediatric intensive care unit. We aim to evaluate if pediatric AKI is associated with higher health service use post-hospital discharge.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

This is a retrospective cohort study of children (≤18 years old) admitted to two tertiary centers in Montreal, Canada. Only the first admission per patient was included. AKI was defined in two ways: serum creatinine alone or serum creatinine and/or urine output. The outcomes were 30-day, 1-year, and 5-year hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and physician visits per person-time using provincial administrative data. Univariable and multivariable Poisson regression were used to evaluate AKI associations with ou

SUBMITTER: Hessey E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5969475 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature