What is it about?
Acute Kidney Injury is one of the most common, most costly and most harmfhul hospital complications. Yet doctors often do not communicate with each other or with patients when AKI occurs. AKI is not documented in medical records and patients often leave hospital without knowing it occurred and without follow-up of their kidney health. We propose guidelines on how to trace individual kidney health using capabilities of electronic health records and big data analytics.
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Why is it important?
One in three patients in intensive care unit will develop acute and often life-treatinng decline in kidney function that will triple their risk for dying, developing other serious complications and ultimately developing chronic kidney disease and heart disease. This publication provides unique framework for the system that can track kidney health from personal to population level.
Perspectives
Every day I take care of patients with critical illness, surgery or trauma who develop and survive acute kidney injury. They leave hospital with the new disease of major organ that is unaccounted for and not cared for by the experts. We can achieve so much by creating a system that can easily track transition from acute to chronic kidney disease.
Azra Bihorac
University of Florida
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This page is a summary of: Establishing a Continuum of Acute Kidney Injury – Tracing AKI Using Data Source Linkage and Long-Term Follow-Up: Workgroup Statements from the 15th ADQI Consensus Conference, Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, February 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1186/s40697-016-0102-0.
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