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Winter 2023 public comment opened Jan. 19 and closed March 18 at 8:00 a.m ET.
Watch videos to learn more about 5 of the items that were up for comment
| 5 items up for comment | Links |
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| Update on continuous distribution of livers and intestines |
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| Optimizing usage of Offer Filters | |
| Identify priority shares in kidney multi-organ allocation |
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| Modify heart policy for intended incompatible (ABOi) blood type offers to pediatric candidates | |
| Require human leukocyte antigen (HLA) confirmatory typing for deceased donors |
UNOS convenes and welcomes public debate.
Public comment is a critical forum for national discussion on organ transplant policy. When public comment has closed, OPTN volunteer committees analyze the themes and concerns voiced by the community as they review proposals and continue the policy development process.
How is policy developed?
Request for feedback
Update on continuous distribution of livers and intestines
Goal
Increase equity in transplants
Concept paper
Identify priority shares in kidney multi-organ allocation
Goal
Increase equity in access to transplants
Proposal
Modify heart policy for intended incompatible (ABOi) blood type offers to pediatric candidates
Goal
Increase the number of transplants
Proposal
Require human leukocyte antigen (HLA) confirmatory typing for deceased donors
Goal
Promote living donor and transplant recipient safety
What is public comment?
Public comment is a crucial part of policy development. It's a time for donor families, transplant candidates, organ recipients, donation and transplant professionals and the general public to provide feedback and engage in debate about policies that govern organ matching and allocation. To make the nation’s organ donation and transplantation system fair and equitable for all, many voices are needed and every view matters.
Please see the resources listed here to learn more about how UNOS convenes the organ donation and transplant community and the public in this twice yearly forum.
- How do we develop policy?
- Learn about our public comment discussion webinars
- What happens after public comment?
Archived public comment
Learn about some of the previous proposals
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