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. 2018 Nov 15;2(1):115–122. doi: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooy043

Table 1.

Clinical variables considered in building AKI predictive models

Feature category Number of variables Details
Demographics 3 Age, gender, and race
Vitals 5 BMI, diastolic BP, systolic BP, pulse, and temperature
Lab tests 14 Albumin, ALT, AST, ammonia, blood bilirubin, BUN, Ca, CK-MB, CK, glucose, lipase, platelets, troponin, and WBC
Comorbidities 29 UHC comorbidity
Admission diagnosis 315 UHC APR-DRG
Medications 1271 All medications are mapped to RxNorm ingredient
Medical history 280 ICD9 codes mapped to CCS major diagnoses

Abbreviations: AKI: acute kidney injury; BMI: body mass index; BP: blood pressure; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; AST: asparate aminotransferase; BUN: Blood Urea Nitrogen; CK-MB: Creatine Kinase-muscle/brain; WBC: white blood cell; UHC: University Healthsystem Consortium (http://www.vizientinc.com); APR-DRG: all patient refined diagnosis related group; CCS: Clinical Classifications Software; CK: Creatine Kinase.