Ron Wald, Stephane Gaudry, Bruno R da Costa, Neill K J Adhikari, Rinaldo Bellomo, Bin Du, Martin P Gallagher, Eric A Hoste, François Lamontagne, Michael Joannidis, Kathleen D Liu, Daniel F McAuley, Shay P McGuinness, Alistair D Nichol, Marlies Ostermann, Paul M Palevsky, Haibo Qiu, Ville Pettilä, Antoine G Schneider, Orla M Smith, Suvi T Vaara, Matthew Weir, Didier Dreyfuss, Sean M Bagshaw
BACKGROUND: There is controversy regarding the optimal renal-replacement therapy (RRT) modality for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI). METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of the STandard versus Accelerated Renal Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury (STARRT-AKI) trial to compare outcomes among patients who initiated RRT with either continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) or intermittent hemodialysis (IHD). We generated a propensity score for the likelihood of receiving CRRT and used inverse probability of treatment with overlap-weighting to address baseline inter-group differences...
November 2023: Intensive Care Medicine