ReviewAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2022
Examining utilization of kidneys as a function of procurement performance.
Review in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Geographic variation in utilization of deceased donor livers in the United States in the era of advanced perfusion.Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society · 2026Article
- Decreasing efficiency in deceased donor kidney offer notifications under the new distance-based kidney allocation system.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2025Article
- Associations Among Circle-Based Kidney Allocation, Center Waiting Time, and Likelihood of Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2025Article
- Improving deceased donor kidney utilization: predicting risk of nonuse with interpretable models.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2025Article
- High-Functioning Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant System Characteristics: The British Columbia Experience With an Opt-In System.Kidney medicine · 2024Article
- What is visible is fixable: Visual dashboards for multi-domain assessment of organ procurement organization performance.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2023Article
- Population Characteristics and Organ Procurement Organization Performance Metrics.JAMA network open · 2023Article
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Abstract
Questions have arisen around new metrics for organ procurement organizations (OPO) due to the perception that low-performing OPOs may be limited by local centers' acceptance of marginal organs. We reviewed 2013-2019 Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OTPN) and National Centers for Health Statistics (NCHS) data to explore the relationship between objectively measured OPO performance and utilization of deceased donor kidneys. We found that although donor recovery declined with rising age and kidney donor profile index (KDPI), OPO performance differences were evident within each age/KDPI group. By contrast, the number of discards per donor did not vary with OPO performance. Centers in donor service areas (DSAs) with lower-performing OPOs had higher local utilization and greater import of high-KDPI kidneys than did those with higher-performing OPOs. Lower rates of donor availability relative to waitlist additions may contribute to observed center acceptance behavior. Differences in center-level performance were highly visible in Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) organ acceptance metrics, while SRTR OPO metrics did not detect large or persistent variation in procurement performance. Cumulatively, our findings suggest that objective measures of procurement performance can inform discussions of organ utilization, allowing for alignment of metrics in all elements of the procurement-transplantation system.
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