Medical students' and health professionals' knowledge regarding acute kidney injury: a cross-sectional study in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a worldwide public health problem and is often treated by non-nephrologists. The objective of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of non-nephrologists, undergraduate medical students and health professionals regarding AKI.

Methods

An unsupervised and closed-response electronic questionnaire was sent to sixth-year medical students and non-nephrologist health professionals working in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

Results

A total of 424 responses were returned from 650 invitations (40.1% males, 39.2% physicians, 34.0% senior medical students or resident physicians, 16.3% nurses and 10.6% pharmacists). The knowledge of medical students and health professionals about the prevalence and lethality of AKI in hospitals ranged from

SUBMITTER: Samaan F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9639479 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature