Questions have arisen around new metrics for organ procurement organizations (OPO) due
to the perception that low-performing OPOs may be limited by local centers' acceptance of …

Abstract Background Organ procurement organizations (OPOs) vary in willingness to pursue
and utilize non‐ideal donor lungs; implications of these practices for lung transplant (LTx) …

There are no established regulations governing patient selection for simultaneous heart‐
kidney (SHK) transplantation, creating the potential for significant center‐level variations in …

There is a chronic shortage of donor lungs for pulmonary transplantation due, in part, to low
lung utilization rates in the United States. We performed a retrospective cohort study using …

Lung transplantation lags behind other solid organ transplants in donor lung utilization due,
in part, to uncertainty regarding donor quality. We sought to develop an easy-to-use donor …

Rationale: In the United States, donor lungs are allocated to transplant candidates on the
basis of lung allocation scores (LAS). However, additional factors beyond the LAS can …

Objective Randomized data support transplantation of hearts from donors after circulatory
death. This may lead to a sizeable increase in the donor pool. Regional variations in donors …

Background. Livers from “nonideal” but acceptable donors are underutilized; however,
organ procurement organization (OPO) metrics do not assess how OPO-specific practices …

In the US, donor lungs are allocated to recipients based on a lung allocation score (LAS).
While the statistical models used to construct the LAS control for patients' demographic and …