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

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

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

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

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

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

⁶For a complete list of authors, see 1

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Critical Care 2004, 8:R204-R212doi:10.1186/cc2872


Published:	24 May 2004

See related letter by Lopes et al., http://ccforum.com/content/11/1/401

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Appendix 1:

Members of the ADQI Workgroup.

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