Severity scoring and mortality 1 year after acute renal failure. |
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| Authors: | Robert L Lins Monique M Elseviers Ronny Daelemans |
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| Institution: | ZNA Stuivenberg, Nephrology-Hypertension, Antwerp, Belgium. robert.lins@pro.tiscali.be |
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Introduction
| Various scoring systems have been developed to optimize theuse of clinical experience in ICU for prognosis and to addressquestions of effectiveness, efficiency, quality of care andcorrect allocation of scarce resources 1,2]. The general severityscoring systems, however, are inappropriate for a disease-specificpopulation 3]. We introduced a scoring system, useful for allpatients with acute renal failure (ARF) admitted to the ICU,whether treated or not with renal replacement therapy (RRT).The Stuivenberg Hospital Acute Renal Failure (SHARF) score forhospital mortality of patients with ARF was developed in a singlecentre study, using two scoring moments (baseline and after48 h) 4]. In a second phase, the SHARF score
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| Keywords: | acute renal failure long-term survival mortality severity score intensive care unit SHARF score |
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