UPTAKE: Using Personalized risk and digital tools to guide Transitions following Acute Kidney Events – A pragmatic randomized controlled trial in Connect Care

Nearly one in ten people that are hospitalized in Canada develop a complication with sudden loss of kidney function, called acute kidney injury (AKI), which may lead to other severe health problems such as kidney failure requiring dialysis treatment, heart attacks and failure, stroke and even premature death. Discharge from hospital can be a difficult transition where there are often gaps in the identification, communication, care coordination, education and planning around AKI. The Mitacs-funded post-doctoral fellow will participate in and lead aspects of the UPTAKE study, which will involve co-design and evaluation of an intervention to reduce the risk of people with AKI as they transition out of hospital. This is a unique opportunity as it will involve a province wide clinical trial that will be fully embedded into Alberta’s new provincial electronic health record, called Connect Care.

Faculty Supervisor:

Matthew James

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Partner:

Alberta Health Services

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public administration; Retail trade

University:

University of Calgary

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