Estimating Baseline Kidney Function in Hospitalized Patients with Impaired Kidney Function
Open Access
- 1 May 2012
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
- Vol. 7 (5), 712-719
- https://doi.org/10.2215/cjn.10821011
Abstract
Background and objectives Inaccurate determination of baseline kidney function can misclassify acute kidney injury (AKI) and affect the study of AKI-related outcomes. No consensus exists on how to optimally determine baseline kidney function when multiple preadmission creatinine measurements are available. Design, setting, participants, & measurements The accuracy of commonly used methods for estimating baseline serum creatinine was compared with that of a reference standard adjudicated by a panel of board-certified nephrologists in 379 patients with AKI or CKD admitted to a tertiary referral center. Results Agreement between estimating methods and the reference standard was highest when using creatinine values measured 7–365 days before admission. During this interval, the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for the mean outpatient serum creatinine level (0.91 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.88–0.92]) was higher than the most recent outpatient (ICC, 0.84 [95% CI, 0.80–0.88]; PPConclusions The mean outpatient serum creatinine measured within a year of hospitalization most closely approximates nephrologist-adjudicated serum creatinine values.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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