Does the outcome change depending on the use of an administrative database versus a high resolution database? In order to answer the question: Is rrt an independent predictor for hospital mortality during ICU?
We identified rrt as:
Patients containing: rrt OR ultrafiltration OR cavhd OR dialysis OR cvvh OR sled and not containing chronic
Our Inclusion/Exclusion criteria are:
- Including only First ICU admission.
- Excluding age <16.
- Including only Apache admission diagnosis containing '%sepsis%'.
- Excluding patients who had a readmission.
- Excluding patients with history of ESRD.
- Including only patients who developed AKI during ICU stay.
- Including only patients with mechanical ventilation.
- Including patients with actualhospitalmortality NOT NULL.
- Including all years.