UK Kidney Donor Risk Index (2012 version) — watson

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.

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)

Value

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

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

Examples

watson_ukkdri(age = 40, htn = 0, weight = 75, hdays = 0, adrenaline = 0) # 1.00
#> [1] 1