Inpatient hospitalisation and mortality rate trends from 2004 to 2014 in the USA: a propensity score-matched case-control study of hyperkalaemia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the trends of hyperkalaemia in USA inpatient hospitalisation records with heart failure (HF), chronic kidney disease (CKD), acute kidney injury (AKI) and/or type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) from 2004 to 2014 with respect to prevalence and inpatient mortality.

Design

Observational cross-sectional and propensity score-matched case-control study.

Setting

The National Inpatient Sample (representing up to 97% of inpatient hospital discharge records in the USA) from 2004 to 2014 PARTICIPANTS: 120 513 483 (±2 312 391) adult inpatient hospitalisation records with HF, CKD/end-stage renal disease (ESRD), AKI and/or T2DM.

Exposure

Hyperkalaemia, defined as the presence of an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification

SUBMITTER: Tecson KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9121480 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature