Hospital Mortality in the United States following Acute Kidney Injury

Authors

Jeremiah. R. Brown, Dartmouth CollegeFollow
Michael E. Rezaee, Dartmouth College
Emily J. Marshall, Dartmouth College
Michael E. Matheny, Veterans Health Administration

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-8-2016

Publication Title

BioMed Research International

Department

Geisel School of Medicine

Abstract

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.

DOI

10.1155/2016/4278579

Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation

Brown, Jeremiah. R.; Rezaee, Michael E.; Marshall, Emily J.; and Matheny, Michael E., "Hospital Mortality in the United States following Acute Kidney Injury" (2016). Dartmouth Scholarship. 555.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/555