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Underdocumentation of laboratory-defined acute kidney injury in internal medicine wards: a retrospective cohort study

Paper C Not peer reviewed Observational

Key takeaways

Doctors looked back at hospital records on general medical wards and compared blood test results against what was written in the chart. Many cases of sudden kidney injury showed up in the lab numbers but were never written down as a diagnosis. This shows a link between lab results and missing chart entries, not proof of why it happens. Sudden kidney injury that goes unrecorded can be missed at follow up, so it is worth asking your team to check your creatinine trend yourself.

Who did this work

Nomy Levin-Iaina · Sharif Zalum · Mustafa Seh · Elena Rotshild · Rey Biton

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-09-07
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.33446639.v1