A Pragmatic Step Forward: AKI and Beyond

Laura M Dember^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine and ldember@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
² Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ldember@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

Editorial

Laura M Dember. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Mar.

. 2019 Mar;30(3):371-372.

doi: 10.1681/ASN.2019010076. Epub 2019 Feb 21.

Laura M Dember^{1

2}

¹ Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine and ldember@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
² Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ldember@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: AKI; clinical trial; hospitalization.

Comment on

An Organizational-Level Program of Intervention for AKI: A Pragmatic Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial.
Selby NM, Casula A, Lamming L, Stoves J, Samarasinghe Y, Lewington AJ, Roberts R, Shah N, Johnson M, Jackson N, Jones C, Lenguerrand E, McDonach E, Fluck RJ, Mohammed MA, Caskey FJ. Selby NM, et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Mar;30(3):505-515. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2018090886. Epub 2019 Feb 21. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019. PMID: 31058607 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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