IMPROVEMENT

The Mayo Clinic on best practices and achieving common goals through collaborative improvement

Quentin Booker, quality advisor for the William J. von Liebig Center for Transplantation and Clinical Regeneration at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., talks about how collaborative improvement helps transplant programs with one another for shared learnings.

Feature: Three-year collaborative improvement project drives results

In focus: UNOS researchers present on one year of COIIN outcomes at ATC

Lowering average time from referral to listing

The Mayo Clinic on collaborative improvement

Reducing the interval between evaluation and listing

Increasing high KDPI kidney utilization

Improving patient readiness

Achieving a shorter, more active waitlist

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The Mayo Clinic on best practices and achieving common goals through collaborative improvement

United Network for Organ Sharing

Three new VCA programs replaced GU program

Lung transplant rates continue to increase six months post implementation of new lung policy

The Mayo Clinic on best practices and achieving common goals through collaborative improvement

Three new VCA programs replaced GU program

Black kidney candidates are receiving waiting time modifications, helping them get the organs they need

Lung transplant rates continue to increase six months post implementation of new lung policy