Acute kidney injury occurs in about 10% of hospitalized patients, but what is less known is the amount of effort AKI consumes in a nephrologist’s day? Does hospital AKI spill over to outpatient follow-up? Do nephrologists use current guidelines in prescribing dialysis for AKI? All of these questions were unknown when the ASN’s AKI Advisory Group addressed the topic. In 2013 they launched a one-day survey on a day-in-the-life of AKI from the perspective of the kidney doctor. Dr. Sarah Faubel (SF) of the University of Colorado discussed their study with eAJKD advisory board member Dr. Joel Topf. To listen to an audio version this interview is based on:   eAJKD: Please tell us about your study? SF: As part of the AKI Advisory Group, we are interested in coming up with a way to highlight the burden of acute kidney injury.  World Kidney Day in 2013 focused on acute kidney injury, and we thought that represented a nice opportunity to get a feel for what was going on in the United States with patients with AKI.  We got the idea to survey ASN nephrologists to understand how many inpatient and outpatient AKI consults were being seen, and how many [...]

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