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Table 1 Basic patient characteristics

From: Incidence, timing and outcome of AKI in critically ill patients varies with the definition used and the addition of urine output criteria

Characteristic of patients (N = 1376)

 

Age (years; mean (sd))

60 (16)

Male sex (N (%))

864 (62.8)

Body Mass Index (kg/m2, mean(sd))

26 (5.2)

APACHE IV (mean(sd))

52 (25)

Admission type

 • Medical (N (%))

461 (33.5)

 • Surgical (N (%))

914 (66.4)

  ◦ scheduled (N (%))

727 (52.8)

  ◦ emergency (N (%))

187 (13.6)

Co morbidity

 • diabetes mellitus (N (%))

221 (16.1)

 • chronic kidney disease (N (%))

58 (4.2)

 • chronic dialysis (N (%))

24 (1.7)

ICU LoS (days; median [IQR])

2 [2.0–3.0]

ICU mortality (N (%))

77 (5.6)

Hospital mortality (N (%))

129 (9.4)

Serum creatinine at admission (μmol/l; median [IQR]) (N = 1369)

73 [58–93]

Acute kidney injury in first 7 days of admission

 • RIFLE (N (%))

210 (15.2)

  ◦ With UO criteria (N (%))

 • AKIN (N (%))

475 (34.5)

294 (21.4)

  ◦ With UO criteria (N (%))

524 (38.1)

 • KDIGO (N (%))

281 (20.4)

  ◦ With UO criteria (N (%))

517 (37.6)

 • Urine output RIFLE (N (%))

265 (19.3)

 • Urine output AKIN (N (%))

230 (16.7)

 • Urine output KDIGO (N (%))

236 (17.2)

Renal replacement therapy (N (%))

62 (4.5)

  1. IQR interquartile range
  2. N number of patients
  3. APACHE IV Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation IV
  4. ICU intensive care unit
  5. LoS length of stay
  6. UO urine output