Blood Pressure and the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury in the ICU: Case-Control Versus Case-Crossover Designs

This chapter describes two different approaches—a case-control and a case-crossover design—to examine the effect of transient exposure of hypotension on the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. We highlight the key differences and the design rationale of these two...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lehman, Li-wei H., Feng, Mengling, Yang, Yijun, Mark, Roger G
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126405