Incident infection following acute kidney injury with recovery to baseline creatinine: A propensity score matched analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with subsequent infection. Whether AKI followed by a return to baseline creatinine is associated with incident infection is unknown.

Objective

We hypothesized that risk of both short and long term infection would be higher among patients with AKI and return to baseline creatinine than in propensity score matched peers without AKI in the year following a non-infectious hospital admission.

Design

Retrospective, propensity score matched cohort study.

Participants

We identified 494 patients who were hospitalized between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2009 and had AKI followed by return to baseline creatinine. These were propensity score matched to controls without AKI.

Main measures

The predictor va

SUBMITTER: Griffin BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6590794 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature