TY  - JOUR
T1  - LOng-term mortality associated with acute kidney injury requiring dialysis—reply
AU  - Wald R, Ray JG
Y1  - 2010/01/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.1879
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 229
EP  - 230
VL  - 303
IS  - 3
N2  - 
In Reply: In response to Dr Bihorac and colleagues, our matched cohort study was designed to compare the risks for chronic dialysis and long-term mortality among survivors of combined AKI and acute dialysis (AKI-dialysis) vs individuals who had neither. Thus, our participant selection process deliberately excluded patients who died or received dialysis soon after hospital discharge, since we were interested in generating data on the long-term prognosis of survivors with some degree of short-term kidney recovery—the group in whom our findings are most externally applicable. The same exclusion criteria were applied to individuals with and without AKI-dialysis.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1879
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1879
ER  -