Electronic health record alerts for acute kidney injury: multicenter, randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether electronic health record alerts for acute kidney injury would improve patient outcomes of mortality, dialysis, and progression of acute kidney injury.

Design

Double blinded, multicenter, parallel, randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Six hospitals (four teaching and two non-teaching) in the Yale New Haven Health System in Connecticut and Rhode Island, US, ranging from small community hospitals to large tertiary care centers.

Participants

6030 adult inpatients with acute kidney injury, as defined by the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) creatinine criteria.

Interventions

An electronic health record based "pop-up" alert for acute kidney injury with an associated acute kidney injury order set upon provider open

SUBMITTER: Wilson FP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8034420 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature