Population Characteristics and Organ Procurement Organization Performance Metrics.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule updating the Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) Conditions for Coverage. This rule evaluates OPO performance based on an unadjusted donation rate and an age-adjusted transplant rate; however, neither considers other underlying population differences.

Objective

To evaluate whether adjusting for age and/or area deprivation index yields the same tier assignments as the cause, age, and location consistent (CALC) tier used by CMS.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cross-sectional study examined the performance of 58 OPOs from 2018 to 2020 across the entire US. A total of 12 041 778 death records were examined from the 2017 to 2020 National Center for Health Stati

SUBMITTER: Lopez R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10548299 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature