kfre: Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE) Tools

Implements the Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE; Tangri and colleagues (2011) <doi:10.1001/jama.2011.451>; Tangri and colleagues (2016) <doi:10.1001/jama.2015.18202>) to compute 2- and 5-year kidney failure risk using 4-, 6-, and 8-variable models. Includes helpers to append risk columns to data frames, classify chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) outcomes, and evaluate and plot model performance.

Package details

AuthorLeonid Shpaner [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5311-8095>, URL: https://www.leonshpaner.com)
MaintainerLeonid Shpaner <lshpaner@ucla.edu>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.0.2
URL https://github.com/lshpaner/kfre_r https://lshpaner.github.io/kfre_r/
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("kfre")

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kfre documentation built on Aug. 28, 2025, 9:09 a.m.