Classification of death causes after transplantation (CLASS): Evaluation of methodology and initial results

Neval Ete Wareham; Caspar Da Cunha-Bang; Álvaro H Borges; Christina Ekenberg; Jan Gerstoft; Finn Gustafsson; Ditte Hansen; Carsten Heilmann; Marie Helleberg; Jens Hillingsø; Paul Suno Krohn; Isabelle Paula Lodding; Thomas Kromann Lund; Louise Lundgren; Amanda Mocroft; Michael Perch; Søren Lykke Petersen; Irma Petruskevicius; Allan Rasmussen; Kasper Rossing; Andreas A Rostved; Henrik Sengeløv; Vibeke Rømming Sørensen; Søren Schwartz Sørensen; Jens D. Lundgren

doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000011564

Classification of death causes after transplantation (CLASS): Evaluation of methodology and initial results

Neval Ete Wareham, Caspar Da Cunha-Bang, Álvaro H Borges, Christina Ekenberg, Jan Gerstoft, Finn Gustafsson, Ditte Hansen, Carsten Heilmann, Marie Helleberg, Jens Hillingsø, Paul Suno Krohn, Isabelle Paula Lodding, Thomas Kromann Lund, Louise Lundgren, Amanda Mocroft, Michael Perch, Søren Lykke Petersen, Irma Petruskevicius, Allan Rasmussen, Kasper RossingAndreas A Rostved, Henrik Sengeløv, Vibeke Rømming Sørensen, Søren Schwartz Sørensen, Jens D. Lundgren

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Correct classification of death causes is an important component of transplant trials.We aimed to develop and validate a system to classify causes of death in hematopoietic stem cell (HSCT) and solid organ (SOT) transplant recipients.Case record forms (CRF) of fatal cases were completed, including investigator-designated cause of death. Deaths occurring in 2010 to 2013 were used for derivation; and were validated by deaths occurring in 2013 to 2015. Underlying cause of death (referred to as recorded underlying cause) was determined through a central adjudication process involving 2 external reviewers, and subsequently compared with the Danish National Death Cause Registry.Three hundred eighty-eight recipients died 2010 to 2015 (196 [51%] SOT and 192 [49%] HSCT). The main recorded underlying causes of death among SOT and HSCT were classified as cancer (20%, 48%), graft rejection/failure/graft-versus-host-disease (35%, 28%), and infections (20%, 11%). Kappa between the investigator-designated and the recorded underlying cause of death was 0.74 (95% CI 0.69-0.80) in derivation and comparable in the validation cohort. Death causes were concordant with the Danish National Death Cause Registry in 37.2% (95% CI 31.5-42.9) and 38.4% (95% CI 28.8-48.0) in the derivation and validation cohorts, respectively.We developed and validated a method to systematically and reliably classify the underlying cause of death among transplant recipients. There was a high degree of discordance between this classification and that in the Danish National Death Cause Registry.

Original language	English
Article number	e11564
Journal	Medicine
Volume	97
Issue number	29
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0025-7974
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000011564
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2018

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Adult
Aged
Cause of Death
Denmark
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Registries
Transplant Recipients/statistics & numerical data
Transplantation/mortality

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Wareham, N. E., Da Cunha-Bang, C., Borges, Á. H., Ekenberg, C., Gerstoft, J., Gustafsson, F., Hansen, D., Heilmann, C., Helleberg, M., Hillingsø, J., Krohn, P. S., Lodding, I. P., Lund, T. K., Lundgren, L., Mocroft, A., Perch, M., Petersen, S. L., Petruskevicius, I., Rasmussen, A., ... Lundgren, J. D. (2018). Classification of death causes after transplantation (CLASS): Evaluation of methodology and initial results. Medicine, 97(29), Article e11564. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000011564

Wareham, NE, Da Cunha-Bang, C, Borges, ÁH, Ekenberg, C, Gerstoft, J , Gustafsson, F , Hansen, D, Heilmann, C, Helleberg, M, Hillingsø, J, Krohn, PS, Lodding, IP, Lund, TK, Lundgren, L, Mocroft, A, Perch, M, Petersen, SL, Petruskevicius, I, Rasmussen, A, Rossing, K, Rostved, AA, Sengeløv, H, Sørensen, VR, Sørensen, SS & Lundgren, JD 2018, 'Classification of death causes after transplantation (CLASS): Evaluation of methodology and initial results', Medicine, vol. 97, no. 29, e11564. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000011564

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