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<strong>ABSTRACTS</strong> FROM 17 TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CRRT,
SAN DIEGO, FEB 14-17, 2012
patients with and without CKD has not
been previously well defined. The
objective of this study was to evaluate
the prevalence of AKI over a 5 year
period and assess AKI associated
morbidity and mortality in a cohort of
hospitalized patients with and without
CKD using the National Hospital
Discharge Survey (NHDS) database.
Methods: We analyzed NHDS database
<strong>from</strong> 2005 to 2009 for primary diagnosis
of AKI and CKD using ICD-9 diagnoses
and procedure codes. Clinical
information of all patients with AKI with
and without CKD was abstracted and
analyzed using SAS version 9.2 and
JMP version 9.0.1. Results: 1,185,477
adult patients were hospitalized <strong>from</strong>
2005-2009, 61984 (5.23%) had a
diagnosis of AKI. The rate of AKI over
the 5 year period progressively
increased: 3.97% in 2005, 4.52% in
2006, 5.58% in 2007, 6.42% in 2008,
and 7.64% in 2009, p