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Table 3 Overall outcomes of each group

From: Association between diuretics and successful discontinuation of continuous renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury

Outcomes

CRRT discontinuation group (n = 517)

HD initiation group (n = 310)

CRRT re-initiation group (n = 349)

p value

Length of ICU stay (days), median (IQR)

9 (5–19)

7 (4–17)

16 (9–29)

< 0.001ab

ICU mortality, n (%)

77 (14.9)

23 (7.4)

133 (38.1)

< 0.001ab

Length of hospital stay (days), median (IQR)

36 (25–65)

45 (22–72)

41 (24–69)

0.05

Hospital mortality, n (%)

163 (31.5%)

73 (23.5%)

198 (56.7%)

< 0.001ab

  1. Continuous variables were compared using the Kruskal-Wallis test followed by Mann-Whitney test, and categorical variables were compared using χ2 tests
  2. Abbreviations: ICU intensive care unit, IQR interquartile range
  3. ap ≤ 0.001 for CRRT discontinuation group versus CRRT re-initiation group
  4. bp ≤ 0.001 for HD initiation group versus CRRT re-initiation group
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