TY - JOUR
T1 - Ascertainment and epidemiology of acute kidney injury varies with definition interpretation
AU - Zappitelli, Michael
AU - Parikh, Chirag R.
AU - Akcan-Arikan, Ayse
AU - Washburn, Kimberly K.
AU - Moffett, Brady S.
AU - Goldstein, Stuart L.
PY - 2008/7
Y1 - 2008/7
N2 - Background and objectives: Differences in defining acute kidney injury (AKI) may impact incidence ascertainment. We assessed the effects of different AKI definition interpretation methods on epidemiology ascertainment. Design, setting, participants, & measurements: Two groups were studied at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas: 150 critically ill children (prospective) and 254 noncritically ill, hospitalized children receiving aminoglycosides (retrospective). SCr was collected for 14 d in the prospective study and 21 d in the retrospective study. Children with known baseline serum creatinine (bSCr) were classified by the pediatric Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, End-Stage Kidney Disease (pRIFLE) AKI definition using SCr change (pRIFLEΔSCr), estimated creatinine clearance (eCCl) change (pRIFLEΔCCl), and the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) definition. In subjects without known bSCr, bSCR was estimated as eCCl = 100 (eCCl100) and 120 ml/min per 1.73 m2 (eCCl120), admission SCr (AdmSCr) and lower/upper normative values (NormsMin, NormsMax). The differential impact of each AKI definition interpretation on incidence estimation and severity distribution was evaluated. Results: pRIFLEΔSCr and AKIN led to identical AKI distributions. pRIFLEΔCCl resulted in 14.5% (critically ill) and 11% (noncritical) more patients diagnosed with AKI compared to other methods (P 0.05). Different bSCr estimates led to differences in AKI incidence, from 12% (AdmSCr) to 87.8% (NormsMin) (P 0.05) in the critically ill group and from 4.6% (eCCl100) to 43.1% (NormsMin) (P 0.05) in the noncritical group. Conclusions: AKI definition variation causes interstudy heterogeneity. AKI definition should be standardized so that results can be compared across studies.
AB - Background and objectives: Differences in defining acute kidney injury (AKI) may impact incidence ascertainment. We assessed the effects of different AKI definition interpretation methods on epidemiology ascertainment. Design, setting, participants, & measurements: Two groups were studied at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas: 150 critically ill children (prospective) and 254 noncritically ill, hospitalized children receiving aminoglycosides (retrospective). SCr was collected for 14 d in the prospective study and 21 d in the retrospective study. Children with known baseline serum creatinine (bSCr) were classified by the pediatric Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, End-Stage Kidney Disease (pRIFLE) AKI definition using SCr change (pRIFLEΔSCr), estimated creatinine clearance (eCCl) change (pRIFLEΔCCl), and the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) definition. In subjects without known bSCr, bSCR was estimated as eCCl = 100 (eCCl100) and 120 ml/min per 1.73 m2 (eCCl120), admission SCr (AdmSCr) and lower/upper normative values (NormsMin, NormsMax). The differential impact of each AKI definition interpretation on incidence estimation and severity distribution was evaluated. Results: pRIFLEΔSCr and AKIN led to identical AKI distributions. pRIFLEΔCCl resulted in 14.5% (critically ill) and 11% (noncritical) more patients diagnosed with AKI compared to other methods (P 0.05). Different bSCr estimates led to differences in AKI incidence, from 12% (AdmSCr) to 87.8% (NormsMin) (P 0.05) in the critically ill group and from 4.6% (eCCl100) to 43.1% (NormsMin) (P 0.05) in the noncritical group. Conclusions: AKI definition variation causes interstudy heterogeneity. AKI definition should be standardized so that results can be compared across studies.
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U2 - 10.2215/CJN.05431207
DO - 10.2215/CJN.05431207
M3 - Article
C2 - 18417742
AN - SCOPUS:49149106684
SN - 1555-9041
VL - 3
SP - 948
EP - 954
JO - Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
JF - Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
IS - 4
ER -