. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.

Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2015 Feb;99(2):360–366. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000588

Table 1.

Data sources, models, and variables for the Markov decision process model for order of deceased donor and living donor transplantation among pediatric kidney transplant candidates.

	Data Source	Model	Variables
Transition Probabilities
W2D	SRTR	Cox proportional hazards	Candidate age, gender, race, PRA, ABO blood type, and previous transplant
T^L2D, T^D2D T^D2W T^L2W	SRTR	Cox proportional hazards	Candidate age, gender, race, etiology of renal disease, previous dialysis, PRA, and previous transplant Donor age, gender, and race HLA mismatch
GF2D	SRTR	Cox proportional hazards	-
W2TD	User Input	-	-
Living Donor Availability	ARIC CARDIA	Exponential survival	Donor age, gender, race, and smoking history
Recipient Sensitization	SRTR	Ordered logistic regression	Donor type HLA mismatch

SRTR = Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, ARIC = Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities, CARDIA = Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults, PRA = panel reactive antibody