Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative.

Acute dialysis quality initiative (ADQI).

ADQI0--Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative--is a process that was created seeking consensus and evidence-based recommendations in the field of acute kidney injury. This organization gave birth to important classifications such as the RIFLE and the cardiorenal syndrome. Several conferences were organized in the last 10 years. Today, ADQI is a well-known initiative and it provides useful informatio...

Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI): methodology.

The Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) is an ongoing process that seeks to produce evidence-based recommendations for the prevention and management of acute kidney injury (AKI) and on different issues concerning acute dialysis. Our methods involve a combination of both expert panel and evidence appraisal, and this approach was chosen to achieve the best of both options. This approach has ...

Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative 2 nd International Consensus

The careful application of information technology to the field of acute dialysis may result in both a better understanding of the disease as well as an improvement in patient outcomes. Although the benefit of improving the information technology of acute dialysis may seem self-evident, often these applications increase costs and complexity with little change in understanding or quality of care....

Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative 3 rd International Consensus Conference

Extracorporeal ultrafiltration for acute exacerbations of chronic heart failure: report from the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative.

This report from a work group affiliated with the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative is a critical assessment of the use of extracorporeal ultrafiltration (UF) in the management of acutely decompensated heart failure (HF). In addition to assessing UF in this setting, the report also provides background information on HF, including classification, pathophysiology, and the importance of concomitan...

Current status of renal and urinary proteomics: ready for routine clinical application?

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