transplantr (version 0.2.0)

uskdri_US: US Kidney Donor Risk Index (US units)

Description

Wrapper function for the uskdri() vectorised function to calculate US Kidney Donor Risk Index as published by UNOS but using mg/dl as the units for creatinine.

Usage

uskdri_US(age, height, weight, eth, htn, dm, cva, creat, hcv, dcd,
  scaling = 1)

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 (mg/dl)

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)

Value

numeric vector of US KDRI values

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.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
uskdri(age = 40, height = 170, weight = 80, eth = "non-black", htn = 0, dm = 0,
    cva = 0, creat = 1.4, hcv = 0, dcd = 0)
# }