
R Open Source Programming Code for Calculation of the Kidney Donor Profile Index and Kidney Donor Risk Index
Author(s) -
Boris Bikbov
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
kidney diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2296-9381
pISSN - 2296-9357
DOI - 10.1159/000492427
Subject(s) - index (typography) , organ procurement , code (set theory) , computer science , procurement , kidney , software , transplantation , data mining , medicine , surgery , programming language , set (abstract data type) , business , marketing
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.