Acknowledgments
Dr. Sean M. Bagshaw is supported by a Canada Research Chair in Critical Care Nephrology.
Disclosure Statement
S.M.B. and R.W. have served as paid consultants to and received speaker fees from Baxter. They have also received unrestricted grant support from Baxter, in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, to fund a multinational multicenter RCT to evaluate the timing of RRT in AKI (STARRT-AKI). The authors declare no further conflicts of interest.
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