Evaluating Spatial Associations in Inpatient Deaths Between Organ Procurement Organizations.

ABSTRACT: To improve the measurement of organ procurement organization (OPO) performance, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently proposed using inpatient deaths defined as the eligible pool of organ donors within an OPO as patients 75 years or younger that died from any cause that would not preclude donation.

Methods

To account for the geographic variation in OPO performance and organ availability across the United States, we utilized spatial analysis to appraise the newly proposed metric of inpatient deaths.

Results

Using spatial clustering that accounts for geographic relationships between Organ Procurement Organizations, the top 5 causes of donation-eligible death, and inpatient deaths, we identified 4 unique OPO clusters. Each group had a distinct demographic compos

SUBMITTER: Adler JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8183974 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature