Open AccessRecovery from AKI in the critically ill: potential confounders in the evaluation
Author(s) -
Miet Schetz,
Jan Gunst,
Greet De Vlieger,
Greet Van den Berghe
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
intensive care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.658
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1432-1238
pISSN - 0342-4642
DOI - 10.1007/s00134-015-3946-3
Subject(s) - medicine , acute kidney injury , creatinine , kidney disease , renal function , renal replacement therapy , intensive care medicine , nephrology , population , confounding , severity of illness , environmental health
Studies on recovery from acute kidney injury (AKI) in ICU patients yield variable results. We assessed the impact of different recovery definitions, of different exclusion criteria, and of imputing missing baseline creatinine on AKI recovery in a heterogeneous ICU population.
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