Quiroga Borja (Orcid ID: 0000-0001-5730-1929) TITLE PAGE Persistent Kidney Dysfunction after Acute Kidney Injury Predicts Short-Term Outpatient Mortality AUTHORS: Borja Quiroga 1 , Marta Sanz Sainz 1 , Begoña Santos Sánchez-Rey 1 , Patricia Muñoz Ramos 1 , Alberto Ortiz 2 , Pablo Ruano 1 . 1 Nephrology Department, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa (Madrid, Spain). 2 IIS-Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, School of Medicine, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain); Fundacion Renal Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo-IRSIN and REDINREN (Madrid, Spain) CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Borja Quiroga Hospital Universitario de La Princesa C/Diego de León 62, 28006 Madrid. Phone: +34915202200. E-mail: borjaqg@gmail.com This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/imj.15166 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.