[HTML][HTML] Hospital mortality in the United States following acute kidney injury

JR Brown, ME Rezaee, EJ Marshall… - BioMed research …, 2016 - hindawi.com
BioMed research international, 2016hindawi.com
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common reason for hospital admission and complication of
many inpatient procedures. The temporal incidence of AKI and the association of AKI
admissions with in-hospital mortality are a growing problem in the world today. In this
review, we discuss the epidemiology of AKI and its association with in-hospital mortality in
the United States. AKI has been growing at a rate of 14% per year since 2001. However, the
in-hospital mortality associated with AKI has been on the decline starting with 21.9% in 2001 …
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common reason for hospital admission and complication of many inpatient procedures. The temporal incidence of AKI and the association of AKI admissions with in-hospital mortality are a growing problem in the world today. In this review, we discuss the epidemiology of AKI and its association with in-hospital mortality in the United States. AKI has been growing at a rate of 14% per year since 2001. However, the in-hospital mortality associated with AKI has been on the decline starting with 21.9% in 2001 to 9.1 in 2011, even though the number of AKI-related in-hospital deaths increased almost twofold from 147,943 to 285,768 deaths. We discuss the importance of the 71% reduction in AKI-related mortality among hospitalized patients in the United States and draw on the discussion of whether or not this is a phenomenon of hospital billing (coding) or improvements to the management of AKI.
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