Title |
The assessment, serial evaluation, and subsequent sequelae of acute kidney injury (ASSESS-AKI) study: design and methods
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Published in |
BMC Nephrology, August 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2369-11-22 |
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Authors |
Alan S Go, Chirag R Parikh, T Alp Ikizler, Steven Coca, Edward D Siew, Vernon M Chinchilli, Chi-yuan Hsu, Amit X Garg, Michael Zappitelli, Kathleen D Liu, W Brian Reeves, Nasrollah Ghahramani, Prasad Devarajan, Georgia Brown Faulkner, Thida C Tan, Paul L Kimmel, Paul Eggers, John B Stokes, the Assessment Serial Evaluation, and Subsequent Sequelae of Acute Kidney Injury (ASSESS-AKI) Study Investigators |
Abstract |
The incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) has been increasing over time and is associated with a high risk of short-term death. Previous studies on hospital-acquired AKI have important methodological limitations, especially their retrospective study designs and limited ability to control for potential confounding factors. |
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