Serum creatinine as stratified in the RIFLE score for acute kidney injury is associated with mortality and length of stay for children in the pediatric intensive care unit

To evaluate the ability of the RIFLE criteria to characterize acute kidney injury in critically ill children.Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected clinical data.Multidisciplinary, tertiary care, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit.All 3396 admissions between July 2003 and March 2007.None.A RIFLE score was calculated for each patient based on percent change of serum creatinine from baseline (risk = serum creatinine x1.5; injury =...