In critically ill adults, the degree of positive fluid balance at ICU discharge predicted impaired mobility and discharge to another healthcare facility [123]. To date, there has not been a systematic evaluation of the impact of fluid balance on long-term outcomes in sick children. Future ...
However, use of acute care services was common, and there was substantial disparity in access to supportive care near the end of life across cohorts. Meaning These findings suggest that advances in research and health care delivery are needed to optimize outcomes among patients who are not ...
Being at risk was defined as being a Medicare patient, assigned to a facility, and receiving dialysis; for a patient death to be attributed to the mortality hazards, the patient must have been at risk on the day they died. Results were calculated for all patients and stratified by race, ...
In 2004, the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative proposed the first uniform diagnostic criteria for AKI. These criteria focus on serum Cr and urine collection, which can be easily measured at any facility; the criteria are divided into 5 levels of renal dysfunction described by the acronym RIFLE (...