R Open Source Programming Code for Calculation of the Kidney Donor Profile Index and Kidney Donor Risk Index.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) and Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) were developed by the United States Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). They may influence the clinical decision whether to accept or discard a donor kidney, but still there are debates about KDPI/KDRI applicability and its consequences. To further evaluate these indexes in different populations, more data should be analyzed, and a universally applicable program code would facilitate it. Currently, KDPI/KDRI calculation could be readily done only on the OPTN website that is convenient for a single donor, but not suitable for processing data sets with many records.

Summary

A universally applicable program algorithm in widely used R language for calculating KDPI and KDRI was d

SUBMITTER: Bikbov B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6276747 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature