The weekend effect alters the procurement and discard rates of deceased donor kidneys in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Factors contributing to the high rate of discard among deceased donor kidneys remain poorly understood and the influence of resource limitations of weekends on kidney transplantation is unknown. To quantify this we used data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients and assembled a retrospective cohort of 181,799 deceased donor kidneys recovered for transplantation from 2000-2013. We identified the impact of the day of the week on the procurement and subsequent utilization or discard of deceased donor kidneys in the United States, as well as report the geographic variation of the impact of weekends on transplantation. Compared with weekday kidneys, organs procured on weekends were significantly more likely to be discarded than transplanted (odds ratio: 1.16; 95% confidence inte

SUBMITTER: Mohan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4912390 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature