RIFLE criteria for acute kidney injury are associated with hospital mortality in critically ill patients: a cohort analysis.

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Published in Crit Care on May 12, 2006

Authors

Eric A J Hoste1, Gilles Clermont, Alexander Kersten, Ramesh Venkataraman, Derek C Angus, Dirk De Bacquer, John A Kellum

Author Affiliations

1: The Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Laboratory, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Effect of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Renal Function in Septic Acute Kidney Injury Patients | NCT03877081

Acute Kidney Injury in Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome | NCT04154007

Acute Kidney Injury in Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) (COVID-AKI-B) | NCT04997915

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