From: Acute kidney injury as an independent risk factor for unplanned 90-day hospital readmissions
Full model | Best stepwise model | Administrative data only model | Biochemistry + age model | Age alone model | AKI alone | |
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Characteristics | ||||||
Age | * | * | * | * | * | |
Age term quadratic term | * | * | * | |||
Male sex | * | |||||
Residential care | * | * | * | |||
Deprived (highest quintile) | * | |||||
Rural (settlement <3000) | * | * | * | |||
Admission context | ||||||
Admissions in prior 1 year (per admission) | * | * | * | |||
Length of stay (per week) | * | |||||
Emergency admission | * | * | * | |||
Medical ward admission | * | * | ||||
Intensive care admission | * | |||||
Renal function | ||||||
AKI stages 0–3 | * | * | * | * | ||
Prior AKI count (per episode) | * | * | ||||
Baseline eGFR (linear and quadratic) | * | * | * | |||
Discharge creatinine 20% > baseline | * | |||||
Comorbidity | ||||||
Cancer | * | * | * | |||
Cardiac failure | * | * | * | |||
Cerebrovascular disease | * | |||||
Dementia | * | |||||
Diabetes | * | * | * | |||
Hemiplegia | * | |||||
Liver disease | * | |||||
Myocardial infarction | * | |||||
Peptic ulcer disease | * | |||||
Peripheral vascular disease | * | |||||
Pulmonary | * | * | * | |||
Rheumatic disease | * | |||||
Model C statistic | 0.699 | 0.698 | 0.685 | 0.655 | 0.594 | 0.587 |
95% confidence interval | (0.688–0.709) | (0.688–0.709) | (0.675–0.696) | (0.644–0.666) | (0.582–0.605) | (0.578–0.596) |
P-value for AUC comparison with the next most complex model | - | 0.536 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.344 |