Journal of nephrology
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Journal of nephrology · Jun 2015
Observational StudySix-year single-center survey on AKI requiring renal replacement therapy: epidemiology and health care organization aspects.
Evidence regarding hospital-based acute kidney injury (AKI) reveals a continuous increase in incidence over the years, at least in intensive care units (ICU). Fewer reports are available for non critically-ill patients admitted to general or specialist wards other than ICU (non-ICU). The consequence of greater incidence is an increase in therapies such as dialysis; but how the health care organization deals with this problem is not clearly known. ⋯ Over the 6-year period, the local healthcare organization had to dispense 80% more dialysis treatments/year in terms of total number and hours of treatment. One-fifth of surviving patients needed to continue dialysis after hospital discharge. Our data highlight the public health importance of AKI and the need for adequate resources for Nephrology.