TMF Session Highlights
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March System Performance Committee meeting
The OPTN/UNOS Ad Hoc System Performance Committee will meet in Chicago March 11-12, 2019 to review and formalize their recommendations to drive transplant system performance and effectiveness. The meeting is open to the public.
Geographic distribution efforts ongoing
Public comment sought on thoracic and VCA proposals; kidney-pancreas is subject of concept paper
Saint Barnabas Medical Center recognized for excellence
Learn more about how St. Barnabus Medical Center used collaborative improvement methodology to shorten wait time from evaluation to listing.
2019 annual UNOS request for information is available
Transplant administrators, data coordinators and financial coordinators can submit organ transplant program data to insurance and managed care companies.
COIIN Results: Increasing the use of high KDPI kidneys
A three-year collaborative improvement pilot project, COIIN, explores new methods of quality monitoring. See how they increased the use of high KDPI kidneys.
Achieving a shorter, more active kidney waitlist
Reviewing and reclassifying the kidney waitlist at University of Chicago Medical Center results in a 17 percent increase in transplants.
Improving patient readiness in the kidney waitlist
Learn how Thomas Jefferson University Hospital reduced its inactive kidney waitlist by 17 percent and ultimately improved patient readiness.
Study finds effective outcomes for A2 to B transplants
Vanderbilt University Medical Center reports effective outcomes for A2 to B transplants in UNOS kidney allocation system
National Liver Review Board implementation postponed
Public comment sought on interim exception score calculation