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All comorbidities recorded in the electronic medical record during the current and three preceding admissions were noted.
Past medical history was extracted from the hospital's charts, all conditions noted during the current or three preceding admissions were recorded.
Some ICD-10 codes that reflect acute conditions such as acute renal failure (marked with * in table 1) were defined as comorbidities only if they were present in preceding admissions.
Chronic renal failure was registered if repeated creatinine values > 500 μmol/L in preceding admissions, differentiated as severe if combined with dialysis or medication specific for renal failure, and as moderate chronic if neither dialysis nor medication specific for renal failure was recorded.
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The duration of ICU stay preceding admission was 236 days.
Reference creatinine was retrieved from blood samples at steady state during the year preceding admission.
Baseline SCr was defined as the latest value from the previous year excluding the last week preceding admission.
To be consistent with a previous study, a diarrhea case was a patient with a history of diarrhea in the three months preceding admission [18].
Blood loss due to trauma preceding admission to the ICU.
Surgical admissions were defined as patients who had undergone surgery within 2 weeks preceding admission.
Patients who had undergone any surgery in the 4 weeks preceding admission were considered surgical admissions.
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