A Validation Study of Administrative Health Care Data to Detect Acute Kidney Injury in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large studies evaluating pediatric acute kidney injury (AKI) epidemiology and outcomes are lacking, partially due to underuse of large administrative health care data.

Objective

To assess the diagnostic accuracy of administrative health care data-defined AKI in children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Design

Retrospective cohort study utilizing chart and administrative data.

Setting

Children admitted to the PICU at 2 centers in Montreal, QC.

Patients

Patients between 0 and 18 years old with a provincial health insurance number, without end-stage renal disease and admitted to the PICU between January 1, 2003, and March 31, 2005, were included.

Measurements

The AKI was defined from chart data using the Kidney Disease

SUBMITTER: D'Arienzo D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6376545 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature