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Impact of electronic alerts for acute kidney injury on patient outcomes: interrupted time-series analysis of population cohort data
BACKGROUND: Automated acute kidney injury (AKI) electronic alerts (e-alerts) are rule-based warnings triggered by changes in creatinine and are intended to facilitate earlier detection in AKI. We assessed the impact of the introduction in the Tayside region of UK in April 2015 of automated AKI e-ale...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7886568/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33623690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfaa151 |
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author | Baird, David De Souza, Nicosha Logan, Rachael Walker, Heather Guthrie, Bruce Bell, Samira |
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description | BACKGROUND: Automated acute kidney injury (AKI) electronic alerts (e-alerts) are rule-based warnings triggered by changes in creatinine and are intended to facilitate earlier detection in AKI. We assessed the impact of the introduction in the Tayside region of UK in April 2015 of automated AKI e-alerts with an accompanying education programme. METHODS: Interrupted time-series analysis using segmented regression was performed involving all adults with AKI aged ≥18 years who had a serum creatinine measured between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2017. Analysis evaluated associations of AKI e-alert introduction on rate and severity (Stages 2–3) of AKI as well as mortality and occupied hospital bed days per patient per month in the population with AKI. RESULTS: There were 32 320 episodes of AKI during the observation period. Implementation of e-alerts had no effect on the rate of any AKI [incidence rate ratio (IRR) 0.996, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.991 to 1.001, P = 0.086] or on the rate of severe AKI (IRR 0.995, 95% CI 0.990 to 1.000, P = 0.061). Subgroup analysis found no impact on the rate or severity of AKI in hospital or in the community. Thirty-day mortality following AKI did not improve (IRR 0.998, 95% CI 0.987 to 1.009, P = 0.688). There was a slight reduction in occupied bed days (β-coefficient −0.059, 95% CI −0.094 to −0.025, P = 0.002). CONCLUSIONS: Introduction of automated AKI e-alerts was not associated with a change in the rate, severity or mortality associated with AKI, but there was a small reduction in occupied hospital bed days. |
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spelling | pubmed-78865682021-02-22 Impact of electronic alerts for acute kidney injury on patient outcomes: interrupted time-series analysis of population cohort data Baird, David De Souza, Nicosha Logan, Rachael Walker, Heather Guthrie, Bruce Bell, Samira Clin Kidney J Original Articles BACKGROUND: Automated acute kidney injury (AKI) electronic alerts (e-alerts) are rule-based warnings triggered by changes in creatinine and are intended to facilitate earlier detection in AKI. We assessed the impact of the introduction in the Tayside region of UK in April 2015 of automated AKI e-alerts with an accompanying education programme. METHODS: Interrupted time-series analysis using segmented regression was performed involving all adults with AKI aged ≥18 years who had a serum creatinine measured between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2017. Analysis evaluated associations of AKI e-alert introduction on rate and severity (Stages 2–3) of AKI as well as mortality and occupied hospital bed days per patient per month in the population with AKI. RESULTS: There were 32 320 episodes of AKI during the observation period. Implementation of e-alerts had no effect on the rate of any AKI [incidence rate ratio (IRR) 0.996, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.991 to 1.001, P = 0.086] or on the rate of severe AKI (IRR 0.995, 95% CI 0.990 to 1.000, P = 0.061). Subgroup analysis found no impact on the rate or severity of AKI in hospital or in the community. Thirty-day mortality following AKI did not improve (IRR 0.998, 95% CI 0.987 to 1.009, P = 0.688). There was a slight reduction in occupied bed days (β-coefficient −0.059, 95% CI −0.094 to −0.025, P = 0.002). CONCLUSIONS: Introduction of automated AKI e-alerts was not associated with a change in the rate, severity or mortality associated with AKI, but there was a small reduction in occupied hospital bed days. Oxford University Press 2020-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7886568/ /pubmed/33623690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfaa151 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Baird, David De Souza, Nicosha Logan, Rachael Walker, Heather Guthrie, Bruce Bell, Samira Impact of electronic alerts for acute kidney injury on patient outcomes: interrupted time-series analysis of population cohort data |
title | Impact of electronic alerts for acute kidney injury on patient outcomes: interrupted time-series analysis of population cohort data |
title_full | Impact of electronic alerts for acute kidney injury on patient outcomes: interrupted time-series analysis of population cohort data |
title_fullStr | Impact of electronic alerts for acute kidney injury on patient outcomes: interrupted time-series analysis of population cohort data |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of electronic alerts for acute kidney injury on patient outcomes: interrupted time-series analysis of population cohort data |
title_short | Impact of electronic alerts for acute kidney injury on patient outcomes: interrupted time-series analysis of population cohort data |
title_sort | impact of electronic alerts for acute kidney injury on patient outcomes: interrupted time-series analysis of population cohort data |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7886568/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33623690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfaa151 |
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