What is visible is fixable: Visual dashboards for multi-domain assessment of organ procurement organization performance.

ABSTRACT: With stakeholder focus on the United States organ procurement system, there is a need for tools that permit comparative assessment of organ procurement providers. We developed a public-facing dashboard for organ procurement organizations (OPOs), using data from multiple sources, to create an online, readily accessible visualization of OPO practice conditions and performance for the period 2010-2020. With this tool, OPOs can be compared on the CMS metric of donors procured per 100 donation-consistent deaths, as well as donation after circulatory death procurement, procurement of older and minority patient populations, procurement in smaller hospitals, and procurement of patients without a significant drug history. Patterns of higher performance were identified, and 74% of differences in ove

SUBMITTER: Doby BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11082780 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature