Table 1 Demographic and baseline characteristics of neonates with and without AKI.

From: Acute kidney injury associated with increased costs in the neonatal intensive care unit: analysis of Pediatric Health Information System database

Demographics and characteristic

Acute kidney injury

No (n = 295,951)

Yes (n = 8774)

Sex

Male

159,097 (53.8)

5257 (59.9)

Female

136,620 (46.1)

3505 (40.0)

Race

Asian/Pacific Islander/ American Indian

13,879 (4.7)

383 (4.4)

Black

52,046 (17.6)

1870 (21.3)

White

160,661 (54.3)

4657 (53.1)

Other

37,236 (12.6)

1176 (13.4)

Unknown

32,129 (10.9)

688 (7.8)

Ethnicity

Hispanic or Latino

45,503 (15.4)

1838 (20.9)

Not Hispanic or Latino

217,324 (73.4)

6315 (72.0)

Unknown

33,124 (11.2)

621 (7.1)

Birthweight

<500 g

1000 (0.3)

140 (1.6)

≥500–<1000 g

13,403 (4.5)

1894 (21.6)

≥1000–<1500 g

17,893 (6.0)

566 (6.5)

≥1500–<2500 g

67,768 (22.9)

1238 (14.1)

≥2500 g

161,976 (54.7)

3955 (45.1)

Missing

33,911 (11.5)

981 (11.2)

Gestational

age

22–26 weeks’

9991 (3.4)

1682 (19.2)

27–30 weeks’

17,278 (5.8)

669 (7.6)

31–34 weeks

45,878 (15.5)

764 (8.7)

35–37 weeks’

60,955 (20.6)

1433 (16.3)

≥38 weeks’

94,963 (32.1)

2475 (28.2)

Missing

66,886 (22.6)

1751 (20.0)

Discharge

year

2015

43,370 (14.7)

931 (10.6)

2016

47,727 (16.1)

1227 (14.0)

2017

51,324 (17.3)

1398 (15.9)

2018

45,749 (15.5)

1293 (14.7)

2019

44,308 (15.0)

1483 (16.9)

2020

35,445 (12.0)

1378 (15.7)

2021

28,028 (9.5)

1064 (12.1)

Renal replacement therapy

Yes

167 (0.1)

243 (2.8)

Feudtnera

Pediatric

Complex

Chronic

Conditions

(CCC)

Classifications

Any CCC?

144,471 (48.8)

8261 (94.2)

# of CCC’s

0.9 ± 1.4

2.9 ± 1.9

Cardiovascular

40,942 (13.8)

3839 (43.8)

Congenital or Genetic

20,450 (6.9)

1278 (14.6)

Gastrointestinal

29,877 (10.1)

2960 (33.7)

Hematologic or Immunologic

7061 (2.4)

704 (8.0)

Malignancy

10,724 (3.6)

213 (2.4)

Metabolic

14,858 (5.0)

1293 (14.7)

Neonatal

70,608 (23.9)

6187 (70.5)

Neurologic or Neuromuscular

21,110 (7.1)

1594 (18.2)

Renal

16,362 (5.5)

2498 (28.5)

Respiratory

16,040 (5.4)

1383 (15.8)

Medical Technology (i.e., device dependency)

27,051 (9.1)

3298 (37.6)

Transplantation

5510 (1.9)

217 (2.5)

  1. Continuous variables presented as mean ± standard deviation; Categorical variables presented as counts (percentages). All comparisons were statistically significant (p < 0.0001) due to large group sizes.
  2. aFeudtner et al. BMC Pediatrics 2014, 14:199.