Considerable Variability Among Transplant Nephrologists in Judging Deceased Donor Kidney Offers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Transplant clinicians may disagree on whether or not to accept a deceased donor kidney offer. We investigated the interobserver variability between transplant nephrologists regarding organ acceptance and whether the use of a prediction model impacted their decisions.

Methods

We developed an observational online survey with 6 real-life cases of deceased donor kidneys offered to a waitlisted recipient. Per case, nephrologists were asked to estimate the risk of adverse outcome and whether they would accept the offer for this patient, or for a patient of their own choice, and how certain they felt. These questions were repeated after revealing the risk of adverse outcome, calculated by a validated prediction model.

Results

Sixty Dutch nephrologists completed

SUBMITTER: Schutter R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10577326 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature