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* I don't think that just having a creatinine of >250 should automatically mean ARI.  This could be the patient's baseline and therefore is a chronic issue.  My opinion is to only use the rule of >100 mmol over baseline over 24 hours for '''acute''' renal insufficiency (without dialysis), or use ATN  if this is documented.  --[[User:LKolesar|LKolesar]] 07:13, 2014 October 8 (CDT)
* I don't think that just having a creatinine of >250 should automatically mean ARI.  This could be the patient's baseline and therefore is a chronic issue.  My opinion is to only use the rule of >100 mmol over baseline over 24 hours for '''acute''' renal insufficiency (without dialysis), or use ATN  if this is documented.  --[[User:LKolesar|LKolesar]] 07:13, 2014 October 8 (CDT)
** Are we to change what we have being doing for over 10 years ?--[[User:PStein|PStein]] 09:54, 2014 October 15 (CDT)
** Are we to change what we have being doing for over 10 years ?--[[User:PStein|PStein]] 09:54, 2014 October 15 (CDT)
** I am just putting my opinion here, if any changes are done they will have to go through the task group first.--[[User:LKolesar|LKolesar]] 11:28, 2014 October 15 (CDT)
== {{Data Integrity Checks}} ==
== {{Data Integrity Checks}} ==
There are a number of coding rules related to renal diagnoses, centralized info about them is in [[Renal Coding Considerations]].  
There are a number of coding rules related to renal diagnoses, centralized info about them is in [[Renal Coding Considerations]].