Hospital-Acquired AKI Linked with High Mortality and Longer Hospital Stays than Community-Acquired AKI

In a recent analysis of 306 patients with AKI who received intermittent hemodialysis at a UK center and had a 6-month follow-up visit, survival rates at hospital discharge were significantly lower for patients who had hospital-acquired AKI than patients who had community-acquired AKI (42.9% vs. 72%). The survival rates at 6 months, however, did not differ significantly (82.8% vs. 87.5%). Investigators also found that 35% of the group with community-acquired AKI was dialysis dependent at hospital discharge compared with 16.7% of the group with hospital-acquired AKI. The findings are published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine.