Variation Across Organ Procurement Organizations in Deceased-Donor Kidney Offer Notification Practices.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

How offer notifications are distributed early in the kidney allocation timeline, including how widely they are offered, is unclear. A better understanding of offer notification practices across organ procurement organizations (OPOs) may identify opportunities for more efficient allocation.

Methods

We merged the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients potential transplant recipient file with additional offer notification time stamps to identify 54 631 deceased-donor kidney match runs from 2017 to 2023. Offer notifications for a given match run are sent to candidates/centers in "batches." We quantified the number of offers in the initial batch-which theoretically reflects the OPO's initial estimate of how widely a kidney should be offered-and compared this me

SUBMITTER: Cron DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11573248 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature