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Understanding Electronic AKI Alerts: Characterization by Definitional Rules.


ABSTRACT: Introduction:Automated acute kidney injury (AKI) electronic alerts are based on comparing creatinine with historic results. Methods:We report the significance of AKI defined by 3 "rules" differing in the time period from which the baseline creatinine is obtained, and AKI with creatinine within the normal range. Results:A total of 47,090 incident episodes of AKI occurred between November 2013 and April 2016. Rule 1 (>26 ?mol/l increase in creatinine within 48 hours) accounted for 9.6%. Rule 2 (?50% increase in creatinine within previous 7 days) and rule 3 (?50% creatinine increase from the median value of results within the last 8-365 days) accounted for 27.3% and 63.1%, respectively. Hospital-acquired AKI was predominantly identified by rules 1 and 2 (71.7%), and community-acquired AKI (86.3%) by rule 3. Stages 2 and 3 were detected by rules 2 and 3. Ninety-day mortality was higher in AKI rule 2 (32.4%) than rule 1 (28.3%, P < 0.001) and rule 3 (26.6%, P < 0.001). Nonrecovery of renal function (90 days) was lower for rule 1 (7.9%) than rule 2 (22.4%, P < 0.001) and rule 3 (16.5%, P < 0.001). We found that 19.2% of AKI occurred with creatinine values within normal range, in which mortality was lower than that in AKI detected by a creatinine value outside the reference range (22.6% vs. 29.6%, P < 0.001). Discussion:Rule 1 could only be invoked for stage 1 alerts and was associated with acute on chronic kidney disease acquired in hospital. Rule 2 was also associated with hospital-acquired AKI and had the highest mortality and nonrecovery. Rule 3 was the commonest cause of an alert and was associated with community-acquired AKI.

SUBMITTER: Holmes J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5678680 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Understanding Electronic AKI Alerts: Characterization by Definitional Rules.

Holmes Jennifer J   Roberts Gethin G   Meran Soma S   Williams John D JD   Phillips Aled O AO  

Kidney international reports 20161209 3


<h4>Introduction</h4>Automated acute kidney injury (AKI) electronic alerts are based on comparing creatinine with historic results.<h4>Methods</h4>We report the significance of AKI defined by 3 "rules" differing in the time period from which the baseline creatinine is obtained, and AKI with creatinine within the normal range.<h4>Results</h4>A total of 47,090 incident episodes of AKI occurred between November 2013 and April 2016. Rule 1 (>26 μmol/l increase in creatinine within 48 hours) accounte  ...[more]

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