Electronic alerts may do more harm than good for kidney patients
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious condition that can lead to dialysis and even death in hospitalized patients. To prevent these adverse outcomes, some hospital systems have proposed using electronic alerts to detect the condition at an early stage. However, the use of electronic alerts by hospitals treating patients with acute kidney injury may increase interventions without improving care, a study has found.