Quantifying sex-based disparities in liver allocation

JE Locke, BA Shelton, KM Olthoff, EA Pomfret… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Differences in local organ supply and demand have introduced geographic
inequities in the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score–based liver allocation …

Geographic disparities in transplantation

PR Salvalaggio - Current opinion in organ transplantation, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Geographic disparities in transplantation : Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation Geographic
disparities in transplantation : Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation Log in or Register …

Utilization of declined liver grafts yields comparable transplant outcomes and previous decline should not be a deterrent to graft use

F Marcon, A Schlegel, DC Bartlett, M Kalisvaart… - …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background In the United Kingdom, up to 20% of liver graft offers are not used for
transplantation, and the reasons for graft refusal are multifactorial and not consistent among …

Persistent sex disparity in liver transplantation rates

M Darden, G Parker, E Anderson, JF Buell - Surgery, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Studies have demonstrated that there are sex disparities in the rate of liver
transplantation. However, little is known statistically about whether this disparity is caused by …

[HTML][HTML] Procurement characteristics of high-and low-performing OPOs as seen in OPTN/SRTR data

RJ Lynch, BL Doby, DS Goldberg, KJ Lee… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
To meet new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) metrics, organ
procurement organizations (OPOs) will benefit from understanding performance across …

The magnitude of the health and economic impact of increased organ donation on patients with end-stage renal disease

HF Chen, H Ali, WJ Marrero, ND Parikh… - MDM policy & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives. There are several approaches such as presumed consent and compensation for
deceased donor organs that could reduce the gap between supply and demand for kidneys …

[HTML][HTML] Geographic disparities in liver supply/demand ratio within fixed-distance and fixed-population circles

CE Haugen, T Ishaque, A Sapirstein, A Cauneac… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent OPTN proposals to address geographic disparity in liver allocation have involved
circular boundaries: the policy selected 12/17 allocated to 150-mile circles in addition to …

Geographic disparity in deceased donor liver transplant rates following share 35

MG Bowring, S Zhou, EKH Chow, AB Massie… - …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network implemented Share 35
on June 18, 2013, to broaden deceased donor liver sharing within regional boundaries. We …

Heterogeneous circles for liver allocation

NL Wood, AB Kernodle, AJ Hartley, DL Segev… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Aims In February 2020, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation
Network replaced donor service area‐based allocation of livers with acuity circles, a system …

Data-Driven Decision Making in Healthcare

W Marrero Colon - 2020 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
The increasing availability of healthcare data has provided a great opportunity for the
development of data-driven models to guide health policy and medical practice. The …