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Assessment of the RIFLE criteria for the diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury; a retrospective study in South-Western Ghana

BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) affects 3–7 % of patients admitted to the hospital and approximately 25–30 % of patients in the intensive care unit. RIFLE, a newly developed international consensus classification for AKI, defines three grades of severity—class R (risk), I (injury) and F (failu...

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Autores principales: Ephraim, Richard K. D., Darkwah, Kwame O., Sakyi, Samuel A., Ephraim, Mabel, Antoh, Enoch O., Adoba, Prince
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4962492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27460991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-016-0318-3