Development and validation of electronic surveillance tool for acute kidney injury: A retrospective analysis

Adil Ahmed; Srinivasan Vairavan; Abbasali Akhoundi; Gregory Wilson; Caitlyn Chiofolo; Nicolas Chbat; Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba; Guangxi Li; Kianoush Kashani

doi:10.1016/j.jcrc.2015.05.007

Development and validation of electronic surveillance tool for acute kidney injury: A retrospective analysis

J Crit Care. 2015 Oct;30(5):988-93. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2015.05.007. Epub 2015 May 19.

Authors

Adil Ahmed¹, Srinivasan Vairavan², Abbasali Akhoundi³, Gregory Wilson⁴, Caitlyn Chiofolo², Nicolas Chbat², Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba⁴, Guangxi Li⁴, Kianoush Kashani⁵

Affiliations

¹ Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care (METRIC), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Wichita Falls Family Practice Residency Program (WFFRP), North Central Texas Medical Foundation, Wichita Falls, TX.
² Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, NY.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
⁴ Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care (METRIC), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
⁵ Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care (METRIC), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Electronic address: kashani.kianoush@mayo.edu.

PMID: 26070247
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2015.05.007

Abstract

Introduction: Timely detection of acute kidney injury (AKI) facilitates prevention of its progress and potentially therapeutic interventions. The study objective is to develop and validate an electronic surveillance tool (AKI sniffer) to detect AKI in 2 independent retrospective cohorts of intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The primary aim is to compare the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of AKI sniffer performance against a reference standard.

Methods: This study is conducted in the ICUs of a tertiary care center. The derivation cohort study subjects were Olmsted County, MN, residents admitted to all Mayo Clinic ICUs from July 1, 2010, through December 31, 2010, and the validation cohort study subjects were all patients admitted to a Mayo Clinic, Rochester, campus medical/surgical ICU on January 12, 2010, through March 23, 2010. All included records were reviewed by 2 independent investigators who adjudicated AKI using the Acute Kidney Injury Network criteria; disagreements were resolved by a third reviewer. This constituted the reference standard. An electronic algorithm was developed; its precision and reliability were assessed in comparison with the reference standard in 2 separate cohorts, derivation and validation.

Results: Of 1466 screened patients, a total of 944 patients were included in the study: 482 for derivation and 462 for validation. Compared with the reference standard in the validation cohort, the sensitivity and specificity of the AKI sniffer were 88% and 96%, respectively. The Cohen κ (95% confidence interval) agreement between the electronic and the reference standard was 0.84 (0.78-0.89) and 0.85 (0.80-0.90) in the derivation and validation cohorts.

Conclusion: Acute kidney injury can reliably and accurately be detected electronically in ICU patients. The presented method is applicable for both clinical (decision support) and research (enrollment for clinical trials) settings. Prospective validation is required.

Keywords: Acute kidney injury; Electronic medical records; Electronic surveillance.

Publication types

Validation Study

MeSH terms

Acute Kidney Injury / blood*
Acute Kidney Injury / therapy
Aged
Algorithms
Creatinine / blood*
Critical Care
Databases as Topic
Female
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Male
Medical Records Systems, Computerized*
Population Surveillance / methods*
Quality Improvement
Reproducibility of Results
Retrospective Studies
Sensitivity and Specificity
Tertiary Care Centers

Substances

Creatinine