Acute kidney injury.

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Joanna Lang practices at Midwest Nephrology Associates in Milwaukee, Wis. Kim Zuber works with the American Academy of Nephrology PAs in Oceanside, Calif., and is former CME chair of the National Kidney Foundation. Jane Davis is a nephrology NP at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The authors have disclosed no other potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Published: April 2016

Acute kidney injury (AKI) complicates up to 20% of all hospital admissions. Responding to the increase in admissions, complications, mortality, morbidity, and cost of AKI, Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes convened an expert panel to study the issue, review the literature, and publish guidelines to evaluate and treat patients with AKI in the acute setting. This article reviews those guidelines.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.JAA.0000481414.49657.2fDOI Listing

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