Status:
COMPLETED
Referral Patterns for Hospital Acquired Acute Kidney Injury and Relevance to Renal Outcomes
Lead Sponsor:
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
Conditions:
Renal Replacement Therapy
Mortality
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-90 years
Brief Summary
Few studies analyzed the referral time to nephrologists and its impact on the patient outcome in a large cohort. The investigators described the incidence and determined the outcome with respect to re...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Adult patients.
- Hospitalization in the medicine and surgery wards and in the intensive care unit.
- Hospitalized patients with acquired acute kidney injury according to the
- Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN)criteria.
- HA-AKI patients with no referral to the nephrologist (nrHA-AKI).
- HA-AKI patients referred late (more than five days \[\> 5 days\]) to the nephrologist (lrHA-AKI).
- HA-AKI patients early referred (within five days after sCr increase) to the nephrologist (erHA-AKI).
Exclusion
- Patients with AKI at the time of the hospital admission and during the first
- 48 hours after admission.
- Patients hospitalized in other wards.
- Children under 18.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
End Date :
Estimated Enrollment :
Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01151514
Last Update
June 28 2010
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Nephrology - CHCVs
Sion, Switzerland, 1951