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Box 1 What features of the current AKI consensus definitions should be applied to AKI alerts?

From: Applications for detection of acute kidney injury using electronic medical records and clinical information systems: workgroup statements from the 15th ADQI Consensus Conference

Consensus Statements:

 We agree with designing AKI alert systems to align with the existing KDIGO classification system, incorporating identification of baseline serum creatinine when known, changes in serum creatinine, and urine output when available.

Basic AKI alert tools can be built using laboratory information systems and triggered by a single abnormal creatinine measurement, changes in inpatient creatinine measurements alone, or changes in inpatient and outpatient creatinine measurements.

AKI alerts should be used as an opportunity to prompt earlier clinical evaluation, further testing and ultimately intervention, rather than as a diagnostic label.

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