About the Authors

Stuart Stewart

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

stuart.stewart@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliations Donal O’Donoghue Renal Research Centre, Research & Innovation, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, England, United Kingdom, Centre for Primary Care & Health Services Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Philip A. Kalra

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Donal O’Donoghue Renal Research Centre, Research & Innovation, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, England, United Kingdom, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Evangelos Kontopantelis

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Primary Care & Health Services Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Tom Blakeman

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Primary Care & Health Services Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (GM PSRC), Manchester, England, United Kingdom,

George Tilston

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, University of Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Smeeta Sinha

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Donal O’Donoghue Renal Research Centre, Research & Innovation, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, England, United Kingdom, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SSt receives doctoral research salary funding from Kidney Research UK. PK has received grant funding from CSL Vifor and Astellas, consulting fees from Astra Zeneca, Vifor, Unicyte, and UCB, honoraria from Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, Pharmacosmos, Medice, GSK, Bayer, and CSL Vifor. EK – None to declare. TB – no financial conflicts of interest; NHS England Think Kidneys Programme Board Member (2014–17); Royal College of General Practitioners’ AKI Clinical Champion (2017–20); NHSE Renal Services Transformation Programme Post‑AKI care Lead (2021–23); Specialist Committee Member for NICE AKI Quality Standard (QS76) (2022–23); Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) AKI Guideline Work Group (2023‑To date). GT receives salary funding by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) (NIHR 203308). SSi has received speaker fees from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Chiesi, Sanofi-Genzyme, Novartis, CSL Vifor, GSK, Menarini, Medscape, and Boehringer-Ingelheim; and consulting fees from AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, Amicus, Stada, Santhera, Novartis, Bayer, Sanofi-Genzyme, Vifor Pharma, GSK, Inozyme Pharma, Sobi, Inozyme Pharma Inc., Pursepring, and Boehringer-Ingelheim, and grant funding received from JnJ, AstraZeneca, CSL Vifor, Sanofi-Genzyme, and Novartis. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.