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Winter 2022 public comment was open Jan. 27 – March 23, 2022
Watch videos to learn more about 5 of the items that were up for comment
| Proposal | Links |
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| Establish eligibility criteria and safety net for heart-kidney and lung-kidney allocation | |
| Redesign map of OPTN regions |
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| Continuous distribution of kidneys & pancreata request for feedback |
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| Improving liver allocation: MELD, PELD, status 1A and status 1B | |
| Establish OPTN requirement for race-neutral eGFR calculations |
UNOS convenes and welcomes public debate.
Public comment is a critical forum for national discussion on organ transplant policy. When public comment has closed, OPTN volunteer committees analyze the themes and concerns voiced by the community as they review proposals and continue the policy development process.
How is policy developed?
Proposal
Establish eligibility criteria and safety net for heart-kidney and lung-kidney allocation
Request for feedback
Continuous distribution of kidneys & pancreata request for feedback
What is public comment?
Public comment is a crucial part of policy development. It's a time for donor families, transplant candidates, organ recipients, donation and transplant professionals and the general public to provide feedback and engage in debate about policies that govern organ matching and allocation. To make the nation’s organ donation and transplantation system fair and equitable for all, many voices are needed and every view matters.
Please see the resources listed here to learn more about how UNOS convenes the organ donation and transplant community and the public in this twice yearly forum.
- How do we develop policy?
- Learn about our public comment discussion webinars
- What happens after public comment?
Archived public comment
Learn about some of the previous proposals
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