Acute kidney disease beyond day 7 after major surgery: a secondary analysis of the EPIS-AKI trial.

"Declarations Conflicts of interestMM received lecture fees from Fresenius Medical Care and Baxter unrelated to current study. JAK is a paid consultant for BioMerieux, and a fulltime employee of Spectral Medical. AZ received lecture fees from Biomerieux, Fresenius Medical Care and Baxter unrelated to current study and an unrestricted research grant from Baxter related to the current study. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest MM received lecture fees from Fresenius Medical Care and Baxter unrelated to current study. JAK is a paid consultant for BioMerieux, and a fulltime employee of Spectral Medical. AZ received lecture fees from Biomerieux, Fresenius Medical Care and Baxter unrelated to current study and an unrestricted research grant from Baxter related to the current study. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The study was supported by the German Research Foundation (KFO342-1, ZA428/18-1, and ZA428/21-1 to AZ and ME5413/1-1 and ME5413/1-2 to MM) and by an unrestricted research grant from Baxter (to AZ)."

"The EPIS-AKI study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Chamber of Physicians Westfalen-Lippe and the Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster (2019-424-f-S). Country-specific requirements, including local ethics approval and/or study registration were fulfilled according to the local requirements and prior to patient enrollment. The study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT04165369, November 18th 2019). The manuscript follows the principles of “Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology” (STROBE) and the Declaration of Helsinki (Fortaleza 2013)."