Use of a hospital administrative database to identify and characterize community-acquired, hospital-acquired and drug-induced acute kidney injury

Acute kidney injury (AKI) has serious short- and long-term consequences. The objective of the present study of a cohort of hospitalized patients with AKI was to (i) evaluate the proportion of patients with hospital-acquired (HA) AKI and community-acquired (CA) AKI, the characteristics of these patients and the AKIs, and the short-term outcomes, and (ii) determine the performance of several ICD-10 codes for identifying AKI (both CA and HA) and...