bar_score: BAR (Balance of Risk) score in liver transplantation

In transplantr: Audit and Research Functions for Transplantation

Description

A vectorised function to calculate the BAR score to predict patient survival after liver transplantation using a composite of donor and recipient factors.

Usage

bar_score(Age, MELD, ReTx, LifeSupport, CIT, DonorAge)

Arguments

Age	numeric vector of recipient ages in years
MELD	numeric vector of MELD scores
ReTx	numeric vector of whether retransplant (1 = "yes", 0 = "no")
LifeSupport	numeric vector of whether on life support pre-transplant (1 = "yes", 0 = "no")
CIT	numeric vector of cold ischaemic time in hours
DonorAge	numeric vector of donor ages

Details

Reference: Dutkowski P, Oberkofler CE, Slankamenac K, et al. Are There Better Guidelines for Allocation in Liver Transplantation? A Novel Score Targeting Justice and Utility in the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Era. Annals of Surgery 2011; 254:745-753.

Value

numeric vector of BAR scores

Examples

bar_score(Age = 63, MELD = 27, ReTx = 0, LifeSupport = 0, CIT = 9.5, DonorAge = 67)

Example output

[1] 15

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