Kidney Thinking. The blog from Think Kidneys

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Added: 21/02/2024
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Archived Content Notice You are currently accessing the Think Kidneys website. Please be aware that this site is an archive and contains content from the Think Kidneys project, which concluded in 2019. As a result, the information presented here is no longer being updated or maintained. For the most current and relevant information, we encourage medical professionals to visit the UK Kidney Association for comprehensive resources…

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Archived Content Notice – This site is no longer being updated or maintained.

Added: 21/02/2024
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Archived Content Notice You are currently accessing the Think Kidneys website. Please be aware that this site is an archive and contains content from the Think Kidneys project, which concluded in 2019. As a result, the information presented here is no longer being updated or maintained. For the most current and relevant information, we encourage medical professionals to visit the UK Kidney Association for comprehensive resources…

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Archived Content Notice

Added: 21/02/2024
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Archived Content Notice You are currently accessing the Think Kidneys website. Please be aware that this site is an archive and contains content from the Think Kidneys project, which concluded in 2019. As a result, the information presented here is no longer being updated or maintained. For the most current and relevant information, we encourage medical professionals to visit the UK Kidney Association for comprehensive resources…

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AKI bundles and measuring AKI outcomes…. What should we be focusing on?

Added: 11/02/2019
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At my hospital I have been collecting inpatient mortality data for non-elective admissions, for over two years now and I’m able to compare mortality rates for patients with and without AKI.  I suspect a similar aim of the UK Renal Registry and Think Kidney’s AKI programme is to provide similar data for hospitals and regions.  One aspect that I have found interesting is that in the…

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Reflections on World Kidney Day 2018 – a personal perspective

Added: 12/12/2018
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Becky Bonfield is the acute kidney injury lead advanced nurse practitioner at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. Here she writes about being part of the team who ran a World Kidney day study event this year. World Kidney Day is a global awareness campaign aimed at raising awareness of the importance of kidneys, and the 2018 theme was women’s health and kidneys as the date…

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