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Thoracic Committee Dissolved July 1; Heart and Lung Committees begin new work
This change allows for the OPTN to be more representative and responsive to the community’s needs, which will in turn help patients.
This change allows for the OPTN to be more representative and responsive to the community’s needs, which will in turn help patients.
Effective June 30, 2020, new data elements are being captured within the graft function section of the Transplant Recipient Follow-up form (TRF).
The kidney and liver living donor follow-up tools are available for all transplant programs in the visual analytics section of the UNet data services portal.
Effective Thursday, June 18, 2020, VCA offers will first be made to compatible transplant candidates listed at VCA programs within a radius of 500 nautical miles of the donor. This replaces the previous distribution unit, which had been the OPTN region of the donor hospital.
Refinements to kidney and pancreas policy to be adopted with new policy approved in December 2019.
Begining June 30, 2020, lung and heart-lung transplant programs will be required to provide additional data.