Measuring and Monitoring Equity in Access to Deceased Donor Lung Transplants among Waitlisted Candidates

In 2016, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) developed a methodology to measure equity in access to deceased donor kidney transplantation that has since been applied to liver and, most recently, lung. The holistic approach is designed to measure disparities related to geographic, demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors while adjusting for factors used to prioritize candidates for allocation, as well as to quantify system-level equity by a single number that can be tracked over time.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - March 31, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: R.R. Goff, E.D. Lease, S. Sweet, A. Robinson, D. Stewart Tags: (516) Source Type: research