Augmented Renal Clearance in the Adult Non-critically Ill Surgery Patient: a Prospective Point Prevalance Study

Inclusion Criteria: * On the recruitment days, all non-critically ill adult patients hospitalized at the 74-bed abdominal and 50-bed trauma surgery wards in the 1850-bed University Hospitals Leuven were eligible for inclusion. On both wards, urinary collections are not routinely performed as part of standard of care. Exclusion Criteria: * Exclusion criteria were age younger than 18 years * Do not resuscitate (DNR) code ≥ 2 * Discharge before 16 hour on the day of collection (d0) * Surgery on the day of collection Pregnancy, lactation * Renal replacement therapy * Non-Caucasian ethnicity * Isolation in order for source control due to infection with multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO) * Incontinence or the lack of cooperation * At the abdominal ward in particular * Women without an indwelling urinary catheter were also excluded due to the incapacity of these patients to carry out the urinary collection in a safe and painless manner * During the urinary collection, patients with incomplete or doubtful urinary collections were excluded * Patients could only be included once, except for those with incomplete urinary collection at an earlier day of collection.