Referral Patterns for Hospital Acquired Acute Kidney Injury and Relevance to Renal Outcomes

Inclusion Criteria

• •Adult patients.
• •Hospitalization in the medicine and surgery wards and in the intensive care unit.
• •Hospitalized patients with acquired acute kidney injury according to the
• •Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN)criteria.
• •HA-AKI patients with no referral to the nephrologist (nrHA-AKI).
• •HA-AKI patients referred late (more than five days \[\> 5 days\]) to the nephrologist (lrHA-AKI).
• •HA-AKI patients early referred (within five days after sCr increase) to the nephrologist (erHA-AKI).