transplantr (version 0.2.0)

p_soft_US: P-SOFT Score (US units)

Description

A wrapper for the p_soft() vectorised function to calculate the pre-procurement component of the SOFT score used to predict patient survival after liver transplantation. The function needs the MELD score as one of its inputs - this is available using the transplantr::meld() function. The units for albumin are g/dl (rather than g/l in p_soft() function)

Usage

p_soft_US(Age, BMI, PrevTx, AbdoSurg, Albumin, Dx, ICU, Admitted, MELD,
  LifeSupport, Encephalopathy, PVThrombosis, Ascites)

Arguments

Age

numeric vector of patient ages in years

BMI

numeric vector of patient BMI in kg/m2

PrevTx

numeric vector of number of previous transplants

AbdoSurg

numeric vector of whether previous abdominal surgery (1 = "yes", 0 = "no")

Albumin

numeric vector of serum albumin in g/dl

Dx

numeric vector of whether on dialysis before transplant (1 = "yes", 0 = "no")

ICU

numeric vector of whether patients in intensive care unit before transplant (1 = "yes", 0 = "no")

Admitted

numeric vector of whether admitted to hospital pre-transplant (1 = "yes", 0 = "no")

MELD

numeric vector of MELD scores

LifeSupport

numeric vector of whether on life support pre-transplant (1 = "yes", 0 = "no")

Encephalopathy

numeric vector of whether encephalopathy present (1 = "yes", 0 = "no")

PVThrombosis

numeric vector of whether portal vein thrombosis (1 = "yes", 0 = "no")

Ascites

numeric vector of whether ascites pre-transplant (1 = "yes", 0 = "no")

Value

numeric vector of P-SOFT scores

Details

Reference: Rana A, Hardy MA, Halazun KJ, et al. Survival Outcomes Following Liver Transplantation (SOFT) Score: A Novel Method to Predict Patient Survival Following Liver Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation 2008; 8:2537-2546.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
p_soft_US(Age = 65, BMI = 36, PrevTx = 2, AbdoSurg = 1, Albumin = 2.9,
    Dx = 0, ICU = 0, Admitted = 1, MELD = 32, LifeSupport = 0, Encephalopathy = 1,
    PVThrombosis = 1, Ascites = 1) # 37
# }