Acute kidney injury risk assessment at the hospital front door: what is the best measure of risk?

Conclusions
Detailed assessment of well-established patient-associated AKI risk factors may not facilitate clinicians to apportion risk. This suggests that additional work is required to develop a more sensitive validated AKI-predictive tool that would be useful in this clinical setting.

Source: CKJ: Clinical Kidney Journal - November 20, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Roberts, G., Phillips, D., McCarthy, R., Bolusani, H., Mizen, P., Hassan, M., Hooper, R., Saddler, K., Hu, M., Lodhi, S., Toynton, E., Geen, J., Lodhi, V., Grose, C., Phillips, A. Tags: AKI Source Type: research