ukkdri: UK Kidney Donor Risk Index (NHSBT, 2019 version)

In transplantr: Audit and Research Functions for Transplantation

Description

A vectorised function to calculate the UK Kidney Donor Risk Index as used in the new national kidney matching scheme implemented in September 2019.

Usage

ukkdri(age, height, htn, sex, cmv, gfr, hdays)

Arguments

age	numeric vector of donor age in years
height	numeric vector of donor height in cm
htn	numeric vector of whether donor history of hypertension (1 = yes, 0 = no)
sex	character vector of donor sex ("F" = female, "M" = male)
cmv	numeric vector of whether donor CMV IgG positive (1 = yes, 0 = no)
gfr	numeric vector of donor eGFR at time of donation
hdays	numeric vector of number of days donor in hospital before donation

Details

The UK KDRI is documented in the UK kidney matching policy which can be found on the NHS Blood & Transplant ODT website at www.odt.nhs.uk

Value

numeric vector of UK Kidney Donor Risk Index values (2019 version)

Examples

ukkdri(age = 50, height = 170, htn = 1, sex = "F", cmv = 0, gfr = 90, hdays = 2)

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