Does NGAL reduce costs? A cost analysis of urine NGAL (uNGAL) & serum creatinine (sCr) for acute kidney injury (AKI) diagnosis

INTRODUCTION: Urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL) is a sensitive and specific diagnostic test for acute kidney injury (AKI) in the Emergency Department (ED), but its economic impact has not been investigated. We hypothesized that uNGAL used in combination with serum creatinine (...

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Autores principales: Parikh, Amay, Rizzo, John A., Canetta, Pietro, Forster, Catherine, Sise, Meghan, Maarouf, Omar, Singer, Eugenia, Elger, Antje, Elitok, Saban, Schmidt-Ott, Kai, Barasch, Jonathon, Nickolas, Thomas L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28542336
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178091

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28542336
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178091

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