READ ME File For 'Impact of factors associated with short-term transplant outcomes'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1647

ReadMe Author: Luke Day, University of Southampton, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3304-948X

This dataset supports the thesis entitled 'Impact of factors associated with short-term transplant outcomes'
AWARDED BY: University of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: 2020

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA:
This dataset relates to 227 donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors across the UK, and was obtained from the NHS Blood and Transplant. It was recorded by nurses regularly taking recordings (approximately once every few minutes) of physiological variables throughout the treatment withdrawal to death phase. These data also contain a set of donor characteristic variables as listed below.

This dataset contains the following variables:
	tsurv: The time (in minutes) from treatment withdrawal to event for the organ donor.
	tcens: A censoring indicator (1 incurred an event, 0 was censored)
	SBP: Systolic blood pressure
	DBP: Diastolic blood pressure
	HR: Heart rate
	Resp_Rate: respiration rate
	timeprog: Time from treatment withdrawal (in minutes)
	dage: The donor age
	dsex: The gender of the donor
	dbg: Blood group of the donor
	dcod: Donor cause of death
	dweight: Donor's weight
	dheight: Donor's height

Note that ID and ethnicity variables have been removed as an additional measure to protect the subject identities.

This project was funded by the NHST Trust Fund (award TF047) and the University of Southampton Vice Chancellor's Scholarship.

Date of data collection: Jan 2013 - April 2015

Location of data collection: United Kingdom

Date README file was created: 18/11/2020

Patient consent forms are held by the NHSBT.