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Center effects greatly affect kidney access disparity

Center effects greatly affect kidney access disparity

Aug 13, 2020 | Equity, In Focus, Kidney/pancreas, News, Research

Research shows center effects are the top driver of kidney access disparities, but DSA effects still remain

Kidney Accelerated Placement project ended July 15, one-year pilot comes to a close

Kidney Accelerated Placement project ended July 15, one-year pilot comes to a close

Aug 10, 2020 | Kidney/pancreas, News

Data is being analyzed, future steps will be determined based on the results of the analysis and with input from the community.

Using machine learning to improve kidney allocation rates

Using machine learning to improve kidney allocation rates

Jul 30, 2020 | In Focus, Kidney/pancreas, News, Research

Carlos Martinez and Andrew Placona were among more than two dozen UNOS researchers to present at the 2020 American Transplant Congress.

Update to Waitlist kidney minimum acceptance criteria page displays date of most recent edit

Update to Waitlist kidney minimum acceptance criteria page displays date of most recent edit

Jul 28, 2020 | Kidney/pancreas, News, UNet℠ system changes

The change will help members comply with the annual criteria update requirements.

Investigating familial kidney disease to assess donor risk of ESRD

Investigating familial kidney disease to assess donor risk of ESRD

Jul 27, 2020 | In Focus, Kidney/pancreas, News, Research

Research shows a link between a recipient’s age and a relative donor’s age in predicting end-stage renal disease (ESRD) post-donation.

Increasing utilization of moderate-to-high KDPI kidneys

Increasing utilization of moderate-to-high KDPI kidneys

Jul 23, 2020 | Collaborative improvement, In Focus, Kidney/pancreas, News, Research

Participating kidney programs performed an increased number of 51-100 percent KDPI transplants while maintaining one-year graft survival rates.

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Latest in reporting positive post procurement donor results

A new permission in Security Administration was added today for transplant programs. Starting Feb. 28, Transplant Programs will be able to view and acknowledge receipt of these notifications from a new dashboard in DonorNet. The dashboard will be visible only to hospital users who have this new permission to acknowledge these notifications.

Offer Filters now available for lung allocation

Offer Filters adds data-driven, multi-criteria filters to organ offers at a program level so lung transplant programs can filter offers they will not accept and organ procurement organizations (OPOs) can find an accepting candidate more quickly.

OPTN Task Force sets goal of achieving 60K transplants by 2026

The OPTN Expeditious Task Force embarks on ambitious project to save more lives, increase efficiency

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