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ReviewFrontiers in pediatrics2021

A Review on the Application and Limitations of Administrative Health Care Data for the Study of Acute Kidney Injury Epidemiology and Outcomes in Children.

Emma H Ulrich, Gina So, Michael Zappitelli, Rahul Chanchlani

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Review in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Emma H UlrichDivision of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Gina SoDepartment of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Michael ZappitelliDivision of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Rahul ChanchlaniInstitute of Clinical and Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, ON, Canada.
Hospital for Sick Children · CAInstitute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences · CAMcMaster University · CAUniversity of Alberta · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Administrative health care databases contain valuable patient information generated by health care encounters. These "big data" repositories have been increasingly used in epidemiological health research internationally in recent years as they are easily accessible and cost-efficient and cover large populations for long periods. Despite these beneficial characteristics, it is also important to consider the limitations that administrative health research presents, such as issues related to data incompleteness and the limited sensitivity of the variables. These barriers potentially lead to unwanted biases and pose threats to the validity of the research being conducted. In this review, we discuss the effectiveness of health administrative data in understanding the epidemiology of and outcomes after acute kidney injury (AKI) among adults and children. In addition, we describe various validation studies of AKI diagnostic or procedural codes among adults and children. These studies reveal challenges of AKI research using administrative data and the lack of this type of research in children and other subpopulations. Additional pediatric-specific validation studies of administrative health data are needed to promote higher volume and increased validity of this type of research in pediatric AKI, to elucidate the large-scale epidemiology and patient and health systems impacts of AKI in children, and to devise and monitor programs to improve clinical outcomes and process of care.

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acute kidney injuryadministrative health care dataepidemiologynephrologypediatrics

Identifiers

PMID34778133
PMCPMC8578942
OpenAlexW3208051895

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