Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jun 2017
Comparative StudyAKIpredictor, an online prognostic calculator for acute kidney injury in adult critically ill patients: development, validation and comparison to serum neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin.
Early diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) remains a major challenge. We developed and validated AKI prediction models in adult ICU patients and made these models available via an online prognostic calculator. We compared predictive performance against serum neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) levels at ICU admission. ⋯ AKI can be predicted early with models that only use routinely collected clinical information and outperform NGAL measured at ICU admission. The AKI-123 models are available at http://akipredictor.com/ . Trial registration Clinical Trials.gov NCT00512122.