ArticleCritical care (London, England)2024
Comparison of methods to normalize urine output in critically ill patients: a multicenter cohort study.
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- Beyond binary AKI classification: development and external validation of a distributional model predicting serum creatinine and urine output trajectories in ICU patients.Critical care (London, England) · 2026Article
- Association between serum glucose potassium ratio and short- and long-term all-cause mortality in patients with sepsis admitted to the intensive care unit: a retrospective analysis based on the MIMIC-IV database.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
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backgroundOliguria diagnosis includes the normalization of urine output (UO) by body weight. However, the rational and the method to apply to normalize UO to body weight are unclear. We aimed to explore the impact of the method applied to normalize UO on oliguria incidence and association with outcomes.
methodsWe included all adult patients admitted to a Swiss (derivation cohort) and a US (MIMIC-IV database, validation cohort) ICU, except those on maintenance hemodialysis, who declined consent or had < 6 consecutive UO measurements. Among a panel of candidate variables (ideal body weight, body mass index, body surface area and adjusted body weight), we identified the best predictor for UO (i.e. the variable that was most closely associated with mean UO during ICU stay). We then compared oliguria incidence and association with 90-day mortality and acute kidney disease (AKD) at hospital discharge, according to whether UO was normalized by actual body weight (ABW) or the identified best UO predictor.
resultsThe derivation and validation cohorts included respectively 15 322 and 28 610 patients. Those in the validation cohort were heavier (mean ABW 81 versus 75 kg) older (65 versus 62 years) and had a lower SAPS-II score (38 versus 43). The best UO predictor was ideal body weight (IBW). Oliguria incidence increased almost linearly across weight categories with ABW normalization but remained constant with IBW normalization. Using IBW for UO normalization rather than ABW improved the association between oliguria and 90-day mortality and AKD. It increased the proportion of patients correctly classified from 37.6 to 48.3% (mortality) and from 37.8 to 47% (AKD). All findings persisted after correction for sex and SAPS-II score and were confirmed in sensitivity analyses.
conclusionUO normalization by IBW lead to a stable incidence of oliguria across categories of weight and improved the association between oliguria and outcomes. IBW should be preferred to normalize UO in critically ill patients.
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