Predicting acute kidney injury at hospital re-entry using high-dimensional electronic health record data.

Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), a sudden decline in kidney function, is associated with increased mortality, morbidity, length of stay, and hospital cost. Since AKI is sometimes preventable, there is great interest in prediction. Most existing studies consider all patients and therefore restrict to featu...

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Main Authors: Samuel J Weisenthal, Caroline Quill, Samir Farooq, Henry Kautz, Martin S Zand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6245516?pdf=render