Research
Delivered dose of renal replacement therapy and mortality in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury
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* Corresponding author: Dinna N Cruz dinnacruzmd@yahoo.com
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1 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hospital Niguarda, Piazza dell'Ospedale Maggiore 3, 20162, Milan, Italy
2 Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, St Bortolo Hospital, Viale Rodolfi 37, 36100 Vicenza, Italy
3 Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care I, St Gerardo dei Tintori Hospital, Via giovanni Pergolesi 33, 20100 Monza, Italy
4 Anesthesiology Clinic, University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225 Germany
5 Hospital Center of Porto, Alameda do Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200 Paranhos, Porto, Portugal
6 Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, CTO Hospital, Via Gianfranco Zuretti 29, 10126 Turin, Italy
7 Department of Nephrology, Hospital Santa Croce e Carle, Via Michele Coppino 26, 12100 Cuneo, Italy
8 Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Riuniti di Bergamo Hospital, Via Tito Livio 2, 24123 Bergamo, Italy
9 Intensive Care Unit, University of Poitiers, 2, rue de la Miletrie, 86021, Poitiers, France
10 Department of Intensive Care, Giovanni Bosco Hospital, Piazza Del Donatore di Sangue 3, 10154 Torino, Italy
Critical Care 2009, 13:R57 doi:10.1186/cc7784
See related commentary by Lameire et al., http://ccforum.com/content/13/3/155
Published: 15 April 2009Additional files
Additional data file 1:
A Word file containing a more detailed description of the study methodology.
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Additional data file 2:
A Word file containing three tables and three figures as listed. Table 1: Characteristics of participating centres. Table 2: Clinical characteristics of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) patients by tertiles of RRT dose. Table 3: Unadjusted, covariate adjusted, and covariate + propensity score-adjusted analysis for intensive care unit (ICU) mortality in CRRT patients. Figure 1: Distribution of RRT dose by RRT modality. (a) CRRT, (b) intermittent RRT; Figure 2: Kaplan Meier curve for ICU survival by tertiles of CRRT dose; Figure 3: Kaplan Meier curve for ICU survival by CRRT dose (≤ 20, 21 to 34, and ≥ 35 ml/kg/hour).
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