anemia: Diagnosis of anemia from Hb concentration

In epocakir: Clinical Coding of Patients with Kidney Disease

Diagnosis of anemia from Hb concentration

Description

KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease Volume 2 | Issue 4 | August (2) 2012

Usage

anemia(...)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
anemia(.data, Hb, age, male, ...)

## S3 method for class 'units'
anemia(Hb, age, male, ...)

## S3 method for class 'numeric'
anemia(Hb, age, male, ...)

Arguments

...	Further optional arguments
.data	(data.frame) A data.frame, optional
Hb	Hemoglobin concentration column name, or vector of units or numeric if .data is not provided
age	Age of patient column name, or vector of units or numeric if .data is not provided
male	Male or not column name, or vector of logical (TRUE/FALSE) if .data is not provided

Details

• Adults and children >15 years with CKD when the Hb concentration is <13.0 g/dl (<130 g/l) in males and <12.0 g/dl (<120 g/l) in females.

• Children with CKD if Hb concentration is <11.0 g/dl (<110 g/l) in children 0.5-5 years, <11.5 g/dl (115 g/l) in children 5-12 years, and <12.0 g/dl (120 g/l) in children 12-15 years.

See https://kdigo.org/guidelines/anemia-in-ckd/ for more details.

Value

Anemia as logical TRUE or FALSE

Examples

anemia(anemia_pt_data, Hb = "Hb", age = "age", male = "male")

anemia_pt_data %>%
  dplyr::mutate(anemia = anemia(Hb = Hb, age = age, male = male))

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