NDT Advance Access originally published online on February 13, 2008
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2008 23(5):1471-1472; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn012
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Defining and classifying AKI: one set of criteria
The Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute illness (CRISMA) Laboratory, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Keywords: emergency service; epidemiology; hospital; hospital mortality; kidney failure
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Over the last several years there have been consistent calls for a consensus definition and classification system for the syndrome now known as acute kidney injury (AKI) [1,2]. The major aim of such a system, it was argued, would be to bring this major intensive care syndrome to a standard of definition and a level of classification similar to that achieved by other common ICU syndromes (e.g. sepsis and acute lung injury). Following such advocacy and through the persistent work of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) group, such a system was developed through a broad consensus of experts [3].
The classification system that resulted is the