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Acute kidney injury and adverse outcomes of critical illness: correlation or causation?

Critically ill patients who develop acute kidney injury (AKI) are more than twice as likely to die in hospital. However, it is not clear to what extent AKI is the cause of excess mortality, or merely a correlate of illness severity. The Bradford Hill criteria for causality (plausibility, temporality...

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Autores principales: Girling, Benedict J, Channon, Samuel W, Haines, Ryan W, Prowle, John R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7147312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32296515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfz158