An Electronic Alert System for In-Hospital Acute Kidney Injury



Status:Completed
Conditions:Renal Impairment / Chronic Kidney Disease, Hospital
Therapuetic Areas:Nephrology / Urology, Other
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:5/3/2014
Start Date:September 2013
End Date:July 2014
Contact:Francis P Wilson, MD MSCE
Email:francis.wilson@uphs.upenn.edu
Phone:740-377-8339

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An Electronic Alert System for In-Hospital Acute Kidney Injury: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

This study will randomize hospitalized patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) to usual
care, or an electronic alert intervention. The electronic alert will be in the form of a
text page that will be sent to the covering clinician and unit pharmacist once per patient
with AKI at the time lab results are uploaded. The investigators hypothesize that such an
alert will improve outcomes in these patients.


Inclusion Criteria:

- Adults >=18 years

- Admitted to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for greater than 24 hours.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Dialysis order within 24 hours of admission

- Dialysis order prior to AKI onset

- Initial creatinine >=4.0mg/dl

- Prior admission in which patient was randomized.

- Nephrectomy during the admission

- Admission to hospice service

- Admission to observation status
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