Selection Bias in Reporting of Median Waiting Times in Organ Transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Median organ waiting times published by transplant organizations may be biased when not appropriately accounting for censoring, death, and competing events. This can lead to overly optimistic waiting times for all transplant programs and, consequently, may deceive patients on the waiting list, transplant physicians, and health care policymakers.

Objective

To apply competing-risk multistate models to calculate probabilities for transplantation and adverse outcomes on the Swiss national transplant waiting list.

Design, setting, and participants

The WAIT (Waitlist Analysis in Transplantation) study was a retrospective cohort study of all transplant candidates in Switzerland listed from January 1, 2018, or later and observed until December 31, 2023. Transplant

SUBMITTER: Schwab S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11388028 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature