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
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