Ascertainment and Epidemiology of Acute Kidney Injury Varies with Definition Interpretation
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- 1 July 2008
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
- Vol. 3 (4), 948-954
- https://doi.org/10.2215/cjn.05431207
Abstract
Background and objectives: Differences in defining acute kidney injury (AKI) may impact incidence ascertainment. We assessed the effects of different AKI definition interpretation methods on epidemiology ascertainment. Design, setting, participants, & measurements: Two groups were studied at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas: 150 critically ill children (prospective) and 254 noncritically ill, hospitalized children receiving aminoglycosides (retrospective). SCr was collected for 14 d in the prospective study and 21 d in the retrospective study. Children with known baseline serum creatinine (bSCr) were classified by the pediatric Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, End-Stage Kidney Disease (pRIFLE) AKI definition using SCr change (pRIFLEΔSCr), estimated creatinine clearance (eCCl) change (pRIFLEΔCCl), and the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) definition. In subjects without known bSCr, bSCR was estimated as eCCl = 100 (eCCl100) and 120 ml/min per 1.73 m2 (eCCl120), admission SCr (AdmSCr) and lower/upper normative values (NormsMin, NormsMax). The differential impact of each AKI definition interpretation on incidence estimation and severity distribution was evaluated. Results: pRIFLEΔSCr and AKIN led to identical AKI distributions. pRIFLEΔCCl resulted in 14.5% (critically ill) and 11% (noncritical) more patients diagnosed with AKI compared to other methods (P 0.05). Different bSCr estimates led to differences in AKI incidence, from 12% (AdmSCr) to 87.8% (NormsMin) (P 0.05) in the critically ill group and from 4.6% (eCCl100) to 43.1% (NormsMin) (P 0.05) in the noncritical group. Conclusions: AKI definition variation causes interstudy heterogeneity. AKI definition should be standardized so that results can be compared across studies.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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