uskdri: US Kidney Donor Risk Index

In transplantr: Audit and Research Functions for Transplantation

Description

Vectorised function to calculate US Kidney Donor Risk Index as published by UNOS. Please note that this function uses creatinine measured in µmol/l by default, but can be changed to mg/dl if the optional units parameter is set to "US".

Usage

uskdri(age, height, weight, eth, htn, dm, cva, creat, hcv, dcd,
  scaling = 1, units = "SI")

Arguments

age	numeric vector of donor ages in years
height	numeric vector of donor heights in cm
weight	numeric vector of donor weights in kg
eth	character string vector of donor ethnicity, "black" or "non-black"
htn	numeric vector of donor hypertension history (1 = yes, 0 = no)
dm	numeric vector of donor diabetes history (1 = yes, 0 = no)
cva	numeric vector of whether donor death due to CVA (1 = yes, 0 = no)
creat	numeric vector of donor serum creatinine (µmol/l)
hcv	numeric vector of donor hepatitis C history (1 = yes, 0 = no)
dcd	numeric vector of type of donor (1 = DCD, 0 = DBD)
scaling	single numeric value for OPTN scaling factor (optional, defaults to 1)
units	single string value to indicate creatinine units ("SI" for µmol/l, "US" for mg/dl)

Details

The KDRI is normalised by a scaling factor based on the median KDRI in the previous year. For 2018, this was approximately 1.250609 as is published on the OPTN website. The scaling parameter in this function defaults to 1, so can be left out to calculate the KDRI without scaling.

Reference: Rao PS, Schaubel DE, Guidinger MK, et al. A Comprehensive Risk Quantification Score for Deceased Donor Kidneys: The Kidney Donor Risk Index. Transplantation 2009; 88:231-236.

Value

numeric vector of US KDRI values

Examples

# with creatinine in µmol/l (units = "SI" can be omitted)
uskdri(age = 40, height = 170, weight = 80, eth = "non-black", htn = 0, dm = 0,
    cva = 0, creat = 120, hcv = 0, dcd = 0, scaling = 1.250609, units = "SI")

# with creatinine in mg/dl
uskdri(age = 40, height = 170, weight = 80, eth = "non-black", htn = 0, dm = 0,
    cva = 0, creat = 1.4, hcv = 0, dcd = 0, scaling = 1.250609, units = "US")

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