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What Insights Do Patients And Caregivers Have On Acute Kidney Injury And Posthospitalization Care? A Single-Centre Qualitative Study From Toronto, Canada, Samuel A. Silver, Marianne Saragosa, Neill K. Adhikari, Chaim M. Bell, Ziv Harel, Andrea Harvey, Abhijat Kitchlu, Javier A. Neyra, Ron Wald, Lianne Jeffs
What Insights Do Patients And Caregivers Have On Acute Kidney Injury And Posthospitalization Care? A Single-Centre Qualitative Study From Toronto, Canada, Samuel A. Silver, Marianne Saragosa, Neill K. Adhikari, Chaim M. Bell, Ziv Harel, Andrea Harvey, Abhijat Kitchlu, Javier A. Neyra, Ron Wald, Lianne Jeffs
Internal Medicine Faculty Publications
Objectives Hospitalisation with acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with short-term and long-term adverse events, but patient and caregiver experiences with AKI are not well described. We sought to better understand patient and caregiver perspectives after a hospitalisation with AKI to inform discharge strategies that may improve outcomes for this high-risk population.
Design Qualitative study with semistructured interviews.
Setting Tertiary care hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Participants Adult patients (n=15) who survived a hospitalisation with Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes stage 2 or 3 AKI from May to December 2016. We also interviewed five patient caregivers. We required patients to …