Early versus late initiation of renal replacement therapy for acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Li Xiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li Xiao, Lu Jia

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chengdu Women's and Children's Central Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Lu Jia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li Xiao, Lu Jia

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Taiyuan, China

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• Rongshan Li,

  Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Taiyuan, China

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• Yu Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Hongming Ji ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hongming102@outlook.com

  Affiliation Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Taiyuan, China

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• Andrew Faramand

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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