NIDDK Central Repository - Predictors of health utility among 60-day survivors of acute kidney injury in the Veterans Affairs/National Institutes of Health Acute Renal Failure Trial Network Study.

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Publication Information

DOI

10.2215/CJN.02570310

PubMed ID

20507953

Public Release Type

Journal

Publication Year

2010

Affiliation

San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94121, USA. kirsten.johansen@ucsf.edu

Authors

Johansen KL, O'Connor TZ, Palevsky PM, Siroka AM, Smith MW, Unruh ML, VA/NIH Acute Renal Failure Trial Network

Studies

ATN

Citation

Johansen KL, Smith MW, Unruh ML, Siroka AM, O'Connor TZ, Palevsky PM, VA/NIH Acute Renal Failure Trial Network. Predictors of health utility among 60-day survivors of acute kidney injury in the Veterans Affairs/National Institutes of Health Acute Renal Failure Trial Network Study. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2010 Aug;5(8):1366-72. Epub 2010 May 27.

Abstract

Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after acute kidney injury (AKI) is an area of great importance to patients. It was hypothesized that HRQOL after AKI would relate to intensity of dialysis during AKI and dialysis dependence at follow-up.