Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
PURPOSE: Current reports on acute kidney injury (AKI) in the intensive care unit (ICU) show wide variation in occurrence rate and are limited by study biases such as use of incomplete AKI definition, selected cohorts, or retrospective design. Our aim was to prospectively investigate the occurrence and outcomes of AKI in ICU patients.
METHODS: The Acute Kidney Injury-Epidemiologic Prospective Investigation (AKI-EPI) study was an ...