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ArticleProgress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.)2023

Organ Transplantation Outcomes of Deceased Organ Donors in Organ Procurement Organization-Based Recovery Facilities Versus Acute-Care Hospitals.

Emily A Vail, Douglas E Schaubel, Peter L Abt, Niels D Martin, Peter P Reese, Mark D Neuman

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Article in Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Contribution of donor hospital characteristics to deceased donor organ recovery rates.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2026
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  2. Heart donation and transplant recipient survival outcomes from deceased organ donors managed in hospital-based vs independent donor care units.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2025
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  4. Characterizing proximity and transfers of deceased organ donors to donor care units in the United States.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emily A VailDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1849-5780
Douglas E SchaubelDepartment of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Peter L AbtDivision of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Niels D MartinDepartment of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Peter P ReeseLeonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Mark D NeumanDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
University of Pennsylvania · USPenn Center for AIDS Research · US

Funding

Survival Analysis Methods for Organ Failure DataR01DK070869 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI DOUGLAS EARL SCHAUBEL · 2005 to 2026
$4.7M
Learning Health Systems Mentored Career Development ProgramK12HS026372 · AHRQ · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ASCH, DAVID A, LANE-FALL, MEGHAN BROOKS · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
Mentored research in solid organ transplantation: outcomes using organs from Hepatitis C virus infected donors for uninfected recipientsK24AI146137 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI REESE, PETER PHILIP · 2019 to 2023
$671k
AHRQ HHS K12 HS026372NIAID NIH HHS K24 AI146137NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK070869
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionRecovery of donated organs at organ procurement organization (OPO)-based recovery facilities has been proposed to improve organ donation outcomes, but few data exist to characterize differences between facilities and acute-care hospitals. RESEARCH QUESTION: To compare donation outcomes between organ donors that underwent recovery procedures in OPO-based recovery facilities and hospitals.

designRetrospective study of Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data. From a population-based sample of deceased donors after brain death April 2017 to June 2021, donation outcomes were examined in 10 OPO regions with organ recovery facilities. Primary exposure was organ recovery procedure in an OPO-based organ recovery. Primary outcome was the number of organs transplanted per donor. Multivariable regression models were used to adjust for donor characteristics and managing OPO.

resultsAmong 5010 cohort donors, 2590 (51.7%) underwent recovery procedures in an OPO-based facility. Donors in facilities differed from those in hospitals, including recovery year, mechanisms of death, and some comorbid diseases. Donors in OPO-based facilities had higher total numbers of organs transplanted per donor (mean 3.5 [SD1.8] vs 3.3 [SD1.8]; adjusted mean difference 0.27, 95% confidence interval 0.18-0.36). Organ recovery at an OPO-based facility was also associated with more lungs, livers, and pancreases transplanted.

conclusionOrgan recovery procedures at OPO-based facilities were associated with more organs transplanted per donor than in hospitals. Increasing access to OPO-based organ recovery facilities may improve rates of organ transplantation from deceased organ donors, although further data are needed on other important donor management quality metrics.

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Organ TransplantationTissue and Organ ProcurementHospitalsHumansRetrospective StudiesSyndactylyTissue Donorsbrain deathhospitalsorgan donationtransplantation

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PMID36942433
PMCPMC10150267
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