Acute kidney injury-epidemiology, outcomes and economics

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 193-207

  Rewa, Oleksa ^a   Bagshaw, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FIBRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TOXIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR SURGERY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURVIVOR;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CREATININE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897117053     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2013.282     Document Type: Review

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