In focus
Making organ recovery transportation safer for transplant teams
Despite a decade since a 2007 fatal plane crash involving a University of Michigan transplant team and pilots, there remain no federal standards regulating air and ground transportation of organ recovery personnel.
Policy keeps patients safe, protects medical urgency status
Staff and members collaborated to create emergency policy and IT changes to protect patients and keep the system nimble during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19: What have we learned to prepare for the next wave?
Insights on donor PCR testing from the May 11 third international organ donation and transplant town hall webinar.
COVID-19 pandemic ignites collaboration in the transplant community
Organ donation and transplantation organizations acted swiftly to produce town hall-style webinars that have been viewed more than 25,000 times.
Transplants bounce back to near pre-COVID-19 levels
Monitoring transplants during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UNOS data visualization shows changes in weekly organ transplants.
2019: Record-setting year for living donation
Education has become an essential tool transplant programs are using to increase understanding and awareness of the procedure.
Is natural language processing useful in predicting organ acceptance?
UNOS data scientists explore donor admission text to help understand and predict how kidney acceptance decisions are made
CARE tool visualizes organ acceptance and refusal
Center Acceptance and Refusal Evaluation (CARE) Report allows transplant centers to see all of the offers they accept as well as all those they refuse.
New study reveals variations in risk among living kidney donors
Research shows family patterns affecting risk can predict whether a living donor will develop end-stage renal disease decades after donating a kidney to a related recipient.
LifeLink of Georgia nearly triples African-American donors
Through focused quality improvement and education practices, LifeLink of Georgia has almost tripled recovery of African-American donors.
OPOs set records for organ donation in 2018
71 percent of organ procurement organizations increased organ donations in 2018, thanks to the generosity of donors and donor families.
Lung and liver perfusion on the rise
Lung perfusion has more than tripled since 2015, growing from 1.7 percent to 6.3 percent and potentially expanding the pool of organs available for transplant.