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Patient and community feedback requested on the use of race in eGFR

Patient and community feedback requested on the use of race in eGFR

Feb 21, 2022 | Equity, Kidney/pancreas, News, Patient

Kidney patients and their caregivers are encouraged to participate in public comment.

Community feedback needed on development of policy for continuous distribution of kidneys and pancreata

Community feedback needed on development of policy for continuous distribution of kidneys and pancreata

Feb 15, 2022 | Kidney/pancreas, News

Input received from patients and transplant professionals during the winter 2022 public comment period will inform future policy development.

How Offer Filters will help more kidney patients, faster

How Offer Filters will help more kidney patients, faster

Feb 11, 2022 | Innovation, Innovation feature, Kidney/pancreas, News, Research

Offer Filters analyzes two years of a program’s accepted organ offers to help get high KDPI kidneys to patients who need them.

For patients: Feb. 18 webinar on continuous distribution of kidneys and pancreata

For patients: Feb. 18 webinar on continuous distribution of kidneys and pancreata

Feb 9, 2022 | Kidney/pancreas, News

Community feedback is an important part of the policy development process.

What is KDPI? A new animation for patients explains the kidney donor profile index

What is KDPI? A new animation for patients explains the kidney donor profile index

Jan 14, 2022 | Education, In Focus, Kidney/pancreas, News

New animated video for patients and their caregivers explains the kidney donor profile index.

What is EPTS? A new animation for patients explains the estimated post-transplant survival score

What is EPTS? A new animation for patients explains the estimated post-transplant survival score

Jan 7, 2022 | Education, In Focus, Kidney/pancreas, News

New animated video for patients and their caregivers explains the estimated post-transplant survival score.

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Coming soon: Change to the Organ Offer Acceptance Limit

The number of offers a transplant hospital may accept per transplant candidate will be reduced from two to one on May 29, 2024. This change applies to all organ types except for pancreas islets. 

Upcoming change to TransNet user management and access

Site security administrators must set permissions for their TransNet users in Security Administration prior to June 5, 2024. 

Coming soon: CPRA >98% form removal for highly sensitized candidates

Transplant hospitals will no longer be required to obtain signatures and update candidate registrations when a candidate’s CPRA is above 98%. There are no changes needed for OPOs. 

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