Mingjing Pi, Sheng Nie, Licong Su, Yanqin Li, Yue Cao, Peiyan Gao, Yuxin Lin, Yan Zha, Yongjun Shi, Hua Li, Jiajun Zhao, Yaozhong Kong, Guisen Li, Ying Hu, Huafeng Liu, Qijun Wan, Chunbo Chen, Bicheng Liu, Qiongqiong Yang, Guobin Su, Yilun Zhou, Jianping Weng, Gang Xu, Hong Xu, Ying Tang, Mengchun Gong, Fan Fan Hou, Xin Xu
INTRODUCTION: Comprehensive data on the risk of hospital-acquired (HA) acute kidney injury (AKI) among adult users of opioid analgesics are lacking. This study aimed to systematically compare the risk of HA-AKI among the users of various opioid analgesics. METHODS: This multicenter, retrospective real-world study analyzed 255,265 adult hospitalized patients who received at least one prescription of opioid analgesic during the first 30 days of hospitalization. The primary outcome was the time from the first opioid analgesic prescription to HA-AKI occurrence...
December 2023: Kidney Diseases