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Acute renal failure – definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: the Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group

Rinaldo Bellomo1*, Claudio Ronco2, John A Kellum3, Ravindra L Mehta4, Paul Palevsky5 and the ADQI workgroup6

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Intensive Care and Medicine, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia

2 Department of Nephrology, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy

3 Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Renal Section, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

4 Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California, USA

5 Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Renal Section, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

6 For a complete list of authors, see Appendix 1

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Critical Care 2004, 8:R204-R212 doi:10.1186/cc2872


See related letters by Lopes et al., http://ccforum.com/content/11/1/401 and Englberger et al., http://ccforum.com/content/13/6/429

Published: 24 May 2004

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Appendix 1:

Members of the ADQI Workgroup.

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