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Table 2 Basic patient characteristics

From: Bundled care in acute kidney injury in critically ill patients, a before-after educational intervention study

Characteristic

Usual care group

STK group

P-value

Number of patients

1295

1347

 

Age (years; mean ± SD)

60.2 (15.6)

59.6 (16.2)

0.35

Male sex (N (%))

809 (63)

835 (62)

0.8

Body Mass Index (kg/m2; mean ± SD)

26.5 (5.2)

26.5 (10)

0.98

APACHE IV (mean ± SD)

51 (25)

52.3 (25)

0.18

Admission type

  

0.05

Medical (N (%))

423 (33)

497 (37)

Surgical (N (%))

  

   Scheduled (N (%))

699 (54)

665 (49)

   Emergency (N (%))

172 (13)

185 (14)

Co-morbidity

Diabetes mellitus (N (%))

194 (15)

195 (15)

0.72

Serum creatinine at admission (μmol/l; median (IQR))

73 (59–91)

72 (59–89)

0.16

KDIGO stage admission (N (%))

1291 (99)

1253 (93)

0.73

No AKI (N (%))

1147 (89)

1117 (83)

Stage 1 (N (%))

85 (6.6)

95 (7.1)

Stage 2 (N (%))

28 (2.2)

21 (1.6)

Stage 3 (N (%))

31 (2.4)

20 (1.5)

Fluid balance day 1

1086 (299, 2112)

728 (61, 1795)

< 0.01

Fluid balance day 2

848 (194, 2260)

726 (173, 1878)

0.023

Fluid balance day 3

708 (89, 1785)

533 (−13, 1389)

0.011

  1. STK ‘Save the Kidney’, SD Standard deviation, APACHE Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation, IQR Inter quartile range