Publications by authors named "Brenda K Anderson"
Rationale & Objective: Innovative models are needed to address significant gaps in kidney care follow-up for acute kidney injury (AKI) survivors.
Study Design: This quasi-experimental pilot study reports the feasibility of the AKI in Care Transitions (ACT) program, a multidisciplinary approach to AKI survivor care based in the primary care setting.
Setting & Participants: The study included consenting adults with stage 3 AKI discharged home without dialysis.
Introduction: Anaemia is highly prevalent in critical illness and is associated with impaired outcomes during and after hospitalisation. However, the impact of interventions designed to attenuate or treat anaemia during critical illness on post-hospitalisation haemoglobin recovery and functional outcomes is unclear.
Methods And Analysis: The Practical Anemia Bundle for Sustained Blood Recovery (PABST-BR) clinical trial is a pragmatic, open-label, parallel group, single-centre, randomised clinical trial assessing the impact of a multifaceted anaemia prevention and treatment strategy versus standard care for improvement of haemoglobin concentrations and functional outcomes after critical illness.
Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) survivors are at heightened risk for poor short- and long-term health outcomes. Even among those who recover after an AKI episode, the risk for chronic kidney disease is 4- to 6-fold higher than in patients without AKI, underscoring the importance of identifying methods to improve AKI survivorship.
Objective: The purpose of this report was to describe the development and feasibility of a novel multidisciplinary approach to caring for AKI survivors at care transitions (ACT).
Purpose: Over a third of critical illness survivors manifest significant psychocognitive impairments following discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU). It is not known which patient populations are at highest risk or if assessment at ICU discharge can guide outpatient treatment prioritization.
Materials And Methods: Prospective single center study in an academic medical center encompassing six types of ICUs assessed prevalence of psychocognitive morbidity based on ICU type and associations between initial and 3 month follow-up evaluation.