An Electronic Alert System for In-Hospital Acute Kidney Injury

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Acute Kidney Injury

In brief

This study will randomize hospitalized patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) to usual care, or an electronic alert intervention. The electronic alert will be in the form of a text page that will be sent to the covering clinician and unit pharmacist once per patient with AKI at the time lab results are uploaded. The investigators hypothesize that such an alert will improve outcomes in these patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01862419

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

2393

Starts

2013-09-01

Expected to finish

2014-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-03-25

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults >=18 years
• Admitted to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for greater than 24 hours.

You may not qualify if…

• Dialysis order within 24 hours of admission
• Dialysis order prior to AKI onset
• Initial creatinine >=4.0mg/dl
• Prior admission in which patient was randomized.
• Nephrectomy during the admission
• Admission to hospice service
• Admission to observation status

Where it is running

• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania — Phiadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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