Your transplant program may receive secure e-mail regarding your patient status information
If your program receives a secure e-mail, you should complete the spreadsheet and return it to UNOS’ Data Quality group within 14 days.
Living donor follow-up form changes will affect future data submission policy requirements
Living donor recovery hospitals: you will need to collect additional information from living donors who donated on or after March 31, 2015.
Enrollment begins for NIH-sponsored donor heart study (DHS)
Attn: Transplant Program Directors Dr. Kiran Khush of Stanford University will lead a Donor Heart Study (DHS) sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The DHS is a prospective observational study that will provide evidence-based strategies for evaluating and... Labs are reminded to give UNOS a copy of their written agreement with transplant hospitals; new bylaws tell you specifically what to include
Check to see if your written agreement contains all the required elements.
Attn: OPOs and all organ recovery teams–Important recall notice
UNOS was alerted through the Patient Safety portal that 17 specific lots of irrigation sets manufactured by Baxter Healthcare are subject to a voluntarily recall issued January 14, 2015. These sets are commonly used during lung recoveries but may also be used by...