Audience
- Lung and heart-lung transplant program directors, program administrators, data coordinators, clinical coordinators, compliance/regulatory affairs and clinical support staff.
- Please share this notice with anyone in your organization who would benefit from this information.
Implementation date
June 30, 2020
At-a-glance statement
Effective June 30, 2020, new data elements will need to be captured within the graft function section of the Transplant Recipient Follow-up form (TRF).
What you need to do
Lung and heart-lung transplant programs will be required to provide additional data. Currently, the TRF for adult and pediatric lung and heart-lung recipients collects lung graft function status primarily limited to bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). On June 30, the 6-month, 1-5 year, and 6+ year TRFs will be modified in UNetSM for both adult and pediatric lung and heart-lung. Changes will also be made to interim forms. Read the 2018 briefing paper.
Below, you will find a list of the data elements that will be added, modified or removed from the TRF on June 30. These will be accessible within a patient’s medical record for both clinical and non-clinical coordinators.
New data elements that will be added
- New graft function data for all adult and pediatric lung and heart-lung transplant recipients on the relevant TRF
- “Forced Vital Capacity (FVC)”
- “Forced Expiratory Flow 25–75% (FEF 25–75)”
Data elements that will be modified
- “FEV1” will now be reported in “L” instead of “%”
- “O2 requirement at rest” will change to “supplemental O2 requirements at rest and/or with exercise”
Data elements that will be removed
- “Brochiolitis obliterans syndrome”
- “Bronchial stricture”
Additional details
Any data entered in UNet may be subject to OPTN review, and members are required to provide documentation as requested.
More Information
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