Table 2

Summary of visit schedule and study components for the ASSESS-AKI Study

Schedule

Inpatient

Baseline

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Months

0

3

6

12

18

24

30

36

42

48

Type of Contact

Visit

Visit

Phone

Visit

Phone

Visit

Phone

Visit

Phone

Visit

Consent for inpatient visit and specimen collection

●

Consent for long-term follow-up

●

Update contact info

●

●

●

●

●

●

●

●

●

●

Inpatient medications

●

Inpatient risk factors for AKI

●

Outcome Events

●

●

●

●

●

●

●

●

●

Outpatient medications

●

●

●

●

●

●

●

●

●

Urinalysis with microscopy (adults)

●

Urine dipstick (adults)

●

●

●

●

●

Height and weight

●

●

●

●

●

Blood pressure

●

●

●

●

●

Questionnaires

Sociodemographic characteristics

●

●

Lifestyle habits

●

●

●

●

●

Medical History

●

●

●

●

●

Quality of life and functional status

●

●

●

●

●

Cognitive function (adults)

●

●

●

Electrocardiogram (adults)

●

●

●

●

●

Collect specimens for storage in biorepository

●

●

●

●

●

●

Random urine sample

●

●

●

●

●

●

Blood for DNA

●

Serum

●

●

●

●

●

Plasma-EDTA

●

●

●

●

●

●

Plasma-citrate

●

●

●

●

●

Go et al. BMC Nephrology 2010 11:22   doi:10.1186/1471-2369-11-22