liver_dri: Liver Donor Risk Index (DRI)

In transplantr: Audit and Research Functions for Transplantation

Description

A vectorised function to calculate the Liver Donor Risk Index as published by Feng and others.

Usage

liver_dri(age, cod, eth, dcd, split, share, cit, height)

Arguments

age	numeric vector of patient ages in years
cod	character string vector of donor causes of death, one of "trauma", "anoxia", "cva" or "other"
eth	character string vector of ethnicity, one of "black", "white" or "other"
dcd	numeric vector of whether DCD (1 = yes, 0 = no)
split	numeric vector of whether liver split (1 = yes, 0 = no)
share	character string vector of type of sharing, one of "regional" or "national"
cit	numeric vector of cold ischaemic times in hours
height	numeric vector of patient heights in cm

Details

Reference: Feng S, Goodrich NP, Bragg-Gresham JL et al. Characteristics Associated with Liver Graft Failre: The Concept of a Donor Risk Index. American Journal of Transplantation 2006; 6:783-790.

Value

numeric vector of liver DRI values

Examples

liver_dri(age = 25, cod = "trauma", eth = "white", dcd = 0, split = 0,
    share = "local", cit = 8, height = 170) # 1.00

liver_dri(age = 64, cod = "cva", eth = "white", dcd = 0, split = 0,
    share = "local", cit = 14, height = 170) # 1.88

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