UNOS staff researchers recently developed a new data report to measure how the OPTN system for allocating deceased donor kidneys is meeting the needs of transplant candidates.
Read the online version that appeared in journal Transplantation.
Five UNOS researchers recently analyzed factors underlying the steady increase in discards of deceased donor kidneys recovered for transplantation.
Four UNOS researchers examined delays in timely access to transplantation for some prior living donors who later require a transplant themselves.
An analysis of data 18 to 20 months after implementation of the kidney allocation system (KAS) shows a number of longer-term patterns, with success in a number of key system goals.
Wida Cherikh, Ph.D., coauthored a peer-reviewed article led by Christopher Bryan, Ph.D., on kidney transplants from deceased donors with subtypes of blood type A into recipients with blood type B. Cherikh is UNOS’ Assistant Director of Business Development and Senior Research Scientist.