In-Hospital and 1-Year Mortality Trends in a National Cohort of US Veterans with Acute Kidney Injury

Authors

Ryann Sohaney, Henry Ford HealthFollow
Huiying Yin
Vahakn Shahinian
Rajiv Saran
Nilka Ríos Burrows
Meda E. Pavkov
Tanushree Banerjee
Chi-Yuan Hsu
Neil Powe
Diane Steffick
Kara Zivin
Michael Heung

Recommended Citation

Sohaney R, Yin H, Shahinian V, Saran R, Burrows NR, Pavkov ME, Banerjee T, Hsu CY, Powe N, Steffick D, Zivin K, and Heung M. In-Hospital and 1-Year Mortality Trends in a National Cohort of US Veterans with Acute Kidney Injury. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2022; 17(2):184-193.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1-2022

Publication Title

Clin J Am Soc Nephrol

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: AKI, a frequent complication among hospitalized patients, confers excess short- and long-term mortality. We sought to determine trends in in-hospital and 1-year mortality associated with AKI as defined by Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes consensus criteria.

DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: This retrospective cohort study used data from the national Veterans Health Administration on all patients hospitalized from October 1, 2008 to September 31, 2017. AKI was defined by Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes serum creatinine criteria. In-hospital and 1-year mortality trends were analyzed in patients with and without AKI using Cox regression with year as a continuous variable.

RESULTS: We identified 1,688,457 patients and 2,689,093 hospitalizations across the study period. Among patients with AKI, 6% died in hospital, and 28% died within 1 year. In contrast, in-hospital and 1-year mortality rates were 0.8% and 14%, respectively, among non-AKI hospitalizations. During the study period, there was a slight decline in crude in-hospital AKI-associated mortality (hazard ratio, 0.98 per year; 95% confidence interval, 0.98 to 0.99) that was attenuated after accounting for patient demographics, comorbid conditions, and acute hospitalization characteristics (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.99 per year; 95% confidence interval, 0.99 to 1.00). This stable temporal trend in mortality persisted at 1 year (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.00 per year; 95% confidence interval, 0.99 to 1.00).

CONCLUSIONS: AKI associated mortality remains high, as greater than one in four patients with AKI died within 1 year of hospitalization. Over the past decade, there seems to have been no significant progress toward improving in-hospital or long-term AKI survivorship.

PubMed ID

35131927

Volume

17

Issue

2

First Page

184

Last Page

193