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. 2023 Mar 7;7:6. doi: 10.1186/s41512-022-00139-5

Table 2.

Clinical candidate predictors for model development with the number of coefficients to be estimated. The sum of the number of coefficients to be estimated was based on a sample size calculation for clinical prediction models

Nr Variable type Variable name Level of measurement Coefficients Comments
1 Donor Age Continuous 3 Restricted cubic splines with 3 knots
2 Donor Donor type (DCD, DBD) Binary 1 Donation after circulatory death (DCD) or brain death (DBD)
3 Donor History of diabetes Binary 1
4 Donor History of hypertension Binary 1
5 Donor eGFR on admission Continuous 1 Estimated glomerular filtration rate
6 Donor eGFR at allocation Continuous 1
7 Donor Resuscitation Binary 1 Donor was reanimated or not
8 Donor Cause of death Categorial 2 Using the 2 most common causes
9 Transplantation Anti-HLA: DSA Binary 1 Presence of donor-specific antibodies
10 Transplantation HLA mismatches Count 1 Human leukocyte antigen mismatches; number between 0 and 6
11 Transplantation Retransplantation Binary 1 Whether recipient was retransplanted
12 Recipient Age Continuous 1
13 Recipient Cardiovascular disease Binary 1
14 Recipient History of diabetes Binary 1
15 Recipient BMI Continuous 1 Body mass index
16 Recipient Pre-transplant dialysis Continuous 1 Time on dialysis
Total: 19