Familiarise yourself with NICE NG148 and any local AKI policy or care bundle.
- Confirm the KDIGO/NICE AKI trigger definitions you will use
- Note locally agreed timeframes for recognition and repeat creatinine
Open Project setup and complete the metadata so submissions are correctly attributed.
- Project name, site, lead clinician, dates
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Local targets (defaults follow NICE NG148)
Use your laboratory AKI alert feed, e-Obs system or ward review to find consecutive AKI triggers.
- Prefer consecutive sampling to reduce selection bias
- Apply inclusion / exclusion criteria before data entry
Enter one form per AKI trigger event. The form takes 3–5 minutes per case.
- Use a pseudonymised case ID — no patient identifiers
- Use clinical notes to confirm recognition time and repeat creatinine timing
Check compliance against your targets, identify themes and missing data.
- Filter by site, ward and AKI stage
- Identify improvement priorities
Export evidence, share with governance and design the improvement intervention.
- Use the export centre for CSV, PDF and PowerPoint outputs
- Plan PDSA cycles based on the gaps identified
Use a pseudonymised case identifier (e.g. study number). Do not enter NHS numbers, names, dates of birth or other directly identifiable data.
Confirm local Caldicott / IG approval before running the audit outside demo mode.
Setup: ~5 minutes
Per case: ~3–5 minutes
Recommended sample: 20–50 consecutive AKI triggers
• Live dashboard with compliance KPIs
• CSV / Excel data export
• PDF QI project report
• Conference poster draft
• ARCP evidence summary
Generation enabled in Phase 3.