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Hospital Mortality In The United States Following Acute Kidney Injury, Jeremiah. R. Brown, Michael E. Rezaee, Emily J. Marshall, Michael E. Matheny
Hospital Mortality In The United States Following Acute Kidney Injury, Jeremiah. R. Brown, Michael E. Rezaee, Emily J. Marshall, Michael E. Matheny
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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 …