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Acute renal failure requiring dialysis in the intensive care unit

14 Jan 2004

In this study, we estimated the cost of continuous renal replacement therapy and intermittent hemodialysis in the intensive care unit and explored the impact of renal recovery on subsequent clinical outcomes and costs among survivors. [...] Only 3-5% of hospital beds are located within an intensive care unit, but up to 20-30% of hospital budgets are spent in the intensive care unit 1, 2. Recent estimates suggest that 23% of patients in the intensive care unit develop acute renal failure, and a significant proportion of these require dialysis 3. The mortality rate of patients requiring dialysis for acute renal failure in the intensive [...] Determination of vital status and renal recovery In hospital mortality and the presence of renal recovery were abstracted from manual review of the hospital records. [...] As such, the methodological issues that arise around collection of The Alberta Centre for Health Service Utilization Research Page 6 Acute Renal Failure Requiring Dialysis in Intensive Care Units cost data in the USA 21, in part due to the use of prices rather than costs, and for centres in Canada which cost admissions on the basis of “case-mix grouping”, do not arise with the cost data considered [...] For other patients who are being treated with continuous veno-venous hemodiafiltration and regional citrate anticoagulation and who are not candidates for intermittent hemodialysis, use of one of the other modalities of The Alberta Centre for Health Service Utilization Research Page 9 Acute Renal Failure Requiring Dialysis in Intensive Care Units continuous renal replacement therapy may save resou
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25
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Canada

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