Urgent Time to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A National Survey of Transplant Physicians and Unrelated Donor Search Coordinators Facilitated by the Histocompatibility Advisory Group to the National Marrow Donor Program.

ABSTRACT: To characterize donor search and selection practices, the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Histocompatibility Advisory Group developed a survey of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) physicians and search coordinators. The objectives were to describe search practices, understand practices surrounding urgent time to HCT, and characterize strategies used when identifying a matched unrelated donor is unlikely. Participants included US physician members of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy and donor search coordinators within the NMDP network. The web-based survey was conducted from February to May 2018. Three hundred seventeen of 858 physicians (37%) and 225 of 327 coordinators (69%) responded, of which 263 and 194, respectively, were eligible and in

SUBMITTER: Pidala J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7307219 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature