External validation of the Donor Risk Index and the Eurotransplant Donor Risk Index on the French liver transplantation registry

• Published in: Liver international Vol. 37; no. 8; pp. 1229 - 1238
• Main Authors: Winter, Audrey, Féray, Cyrille, Audureau, Etienne, Écochard, René, Jacquelinet, Christian, Roudot‐Thoraval, Françoise, Duvoux, Christophe, Daurès, Jean‐Pierre, Landais, Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.08.2017; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Adaptive systems; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Child; Child, Preschool; donor risk; external validation; Female; France; Grafts; Human health and pathology; Humans; Hépatology and Gastroenterology; Infant; Life Sciences; Liver; Liver Transplantation; Male; Middle Aged; Optimization; Organs; prognostic score; Registries; Risk; Risk Assessment; Tissue Donors - statistics & numerical data; Transplantation; Transplants & implants; Young Adult; France; external validation; prognostic score; donor risk; liver transplantation

Background & Aims A major limitation to liver transplantation is organ shortage leading to the use of non‐optimal liver grafts. The Donor Risk Index has been validated and recommended to select donors/organs. The Eurotransplant Donor Risk Index was derived from the Donor Risk Index. The objectiv...