The fallacy of the BUN: Creatinine ratio in critically ill patients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2248-2254

  Rachoin, Jean Sebastien ^a   Daher, Ralph ^b   Moussallem, Charles ^a   Milcarek, Barry ^a   Hunter, Krystal ^a   Schorr, Christa ^a   Abboud, Mariam ^a   Henry, Patricia ^a   Weisberg, Lawrence S ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Critical illness; Hospital mortality; Renal replacement therapy

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; UREA;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CREATININE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861855987     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr705     Document Type: Article

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