watson_ukkdri: UK Kidney Donor Risk Index (2012 version)

In transplantr: Audit and Research Functions for Transplantation

Description

A vectorised function to calculate the UK Kidney Donor Risk Index as published by Watson et al. in 2012. Please note that this is not the same risk index as used in the new UK kidney matching scheme starting in September 2019.

Usage

watson_ukkdri(age, htn, weight, hdays, adrenaline)

Arguments

age	numeric vector of donor ages
htn	numeric vector of whether donor history of hypertension (1 = yes, 0 = no)
weight	numeric vector of donor weights in kg
hdays	numeric vector of donor length of hospital stay
adrenaline	numeric vector of whether donor treated with adrenaline (1 = yes, 0 = no)

Details

Reference: Watson CJE, Johnson RJ, Birch R, et al. A Simplified Donor Risk Index for Predicting Outcome After Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation 2012; 93(3):314-318

Value

numeric vector of UK Kidney Donor Risk Index (2012) values

Examples

watson_ukkdri(age = 40, htn = 0, weight = 75, hdays = 0, adrenaline = 0) # 1.00

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