Comparison of Static and Dynamic Baseline Creatinine Surrogates for Defining Acute Kidney Injury

Conclusions: The dynamic baseline sCr is available without reference to preadmission sCr values and avoids confounding associated with missing outpatient sCr values. AKI defined with the dynamic baseline sCr significantly improved discrimination of risk for inpatient mortality and dialysis compared to static baseline sCr.Nephron
Source: Nephron - Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: research