RIFLE criteria provide robust assessment of kidney dysfunction and correlate with hospital mortality

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2016-2017

  Hoste, Eric A J ^a   Kellum, John A ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute; Emergency service; Epidemiology; Hospital; Hospital mortality; Kidney failure

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSENSUS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIFLE CRITERION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE;

EID: 33745615396     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000219374.43963.B5     Document Type: Editorial

References (18)

1. Ronco C, Bellomo R, Homel P, et al: Effect of different doses in continuous veno-venous haemofiltration on outcomes of acute renal failure: A prospective randomised trial. Lancet 2000; 356:26-30
2. Hoste EA, Kellum JA: ARF in the critically ill: Impact on morbidity and mortality. Contrib Nephrol 2004; 144:1-11
3. Metnitz PG, Krenn CG, Steltzer H, et al: Effect of acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy on outcome in critically ill patients. Crit Care Med 2002; 30:2051-2058
4. Chertow GM, Levy EM, Hammermeister KM, et al: Independent association between acute renal failure and mortality following cardiac surgery. Am J Med 1998; 104:343-348
5. Levy EM, Viscoli CM, Horwitz RI: The effect of acute renal failure on mortality. A cohort analysis. JAMA 1996; 275:1489-1494
6. Lassnigg A, Schmidlin D, Mouhieddine M, et al: Minimal changes of serum creatinine predict prognosis in patients after cardiothoracic surgery: A prospective cohort study. J Am Soc Nephrol 2004; 15:1597-1605
7. Mangano CM, Diamondstone LS, Ramsay JG, et al: Renal dysfunction after myocardial revascularization: Risk factors, adverse outcomes, and hospital resource utilization. The Multicenter Study of Perioperative Ischemia Research Group. Ann Intern Med 1998; 128:194-203
8. Chertow GM, Burdick E, Honour M, et al: Acute kidney injury, mortality, length of stay, and costs in hospitalized patients. J Am Soc Nephrol 2005; 16:3365-3370
9. Kellum JA, Angus DC: Patients are dying of acute renal failure. Crit Care Med 2002; 30:2156-2157
10. Hou S, Bushinsky D, Wish J, et al: Hospital-acquired renal insufficiency: A prospective study. Am J Med 1983; 74:243-248
11. Nash K, Hafeez A, Hou S: Hospital-acquired renal insufficiency. Am J Kidney Dis 2002; 39:930-936
12. Hoste E, Clermont G, Kersten A, et al: RIFLE criteria for acute kindey injury is associated with hospital mortality in critically ill patient: A cohort analysis. Crit Care 2006; 10:R73-R82
13. Uchino S, Bellomo R, Goldsmith D, et al: An assessment of the RIFLE criteria for acute renal failure in hospitalized patients. Crit Care Med 2006; 34:1913-1917
14. Kellum JA, Levin N, Bouman C, et al: Developing a consensus classification system for acute renal failure. Curr Opin Crit Care 2002; 8:509-514
15. Bellomo R, Ronco C, Kellum JA, et al: Acute renal failure - Definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: The Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group. Crit Care 2004; 8:R204-R212
16. Herget-Rosenthal S, Marggraf G, Husing J, et al: Early detection of acute renal failure by serum cystatin C. Kidney Int 2004; 66:1115-1122
17. Bell M, Liljestam E, Granath F, et al: Optimal follow-up time after continuous renal replacement therapy in actual renal failure patients stratified with the RIFLE criteria. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2005; 20:354-360
18. Abosaif NY, Tolba YA, Heap M, et al: The outcome of acute renal failure in the intensive care unit according to RIFLE: Model application, sensitivity, and predictability. Am J Kidney Dis 2005; 46:1038-1048