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. 2023 Apr;37(4):e14908.
doi: 10.1111/ctr.14908. Epub 2023 Feb 5.

Factors enabling transplant program participation in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) Living Donor Collective: A national survey

Krista L Lentine  1 , Mary Amanda Dew  2 , Huiling Xiao  1 , Addie Wisniewski  1 , Macey L Levan  3 , Fawaz Al Ammary  4 , Asif Sharfuddin  5 , David A Axelrod  6 , Amy D Waterman  7 , Bertram Kasiske  8
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Factors enabling transplant program participation in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) Living Donor Collective: A national survey

Krista L Lentine et al. Clin Transplant. 2023 Apr.

Abstract

Background: The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) Living Donor Collective (LDC), the first effort to create a lifetime registry for living donor candidates in the United States, requires transplant programs to register donor candidates while the SRTR conducts follow-up.

Methods: To better understand facilitators and barriers to program participation, we conducted a brief electronic survey of U.S. transplant program staff from October 26, 2021 to December 17, 2021.

Results: We received 132 responses, with at least one response from 87 living donor programs (46 kidney programs, 33 kidney and liver programs, and eight liver programs alone). We found 86% of program representatives strongly agreed or agreed that funding adequate to cover the cost of data collection would facilitate LDC participation, 92% agreed or strongly agreed with importance of electronic data submission options, and 74% reported that elimination of requirements to submit duplicative pre-operative information to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) would be helpful. Other potentially enabling factors include reduction in duration of OPTN postdonation follow-up requirements, ease-of-use, protection from data use for regulation, adequate data security, and equity in data access.

Conclusion: This survey identifies potential targets to strengthen participation in the effort to create a national living donor registry in the United States. Collaboration and investment to overcome barriers to LDC participation among transplant programs are vital to generate long-term data on living donation for donor candidates, donors, and patients in need of transplant.

Keywords: SRTR; follow-up care; living kidney donors; registry; survey.

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Conflict of interest statement

COI STATEMENT

KLL, DAA, and BLK are senior scientists for the SRTR. KLL, MAD, FA, ML and ADW contributed to the LDC in roles at pilot sites.

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Facilitating factors for Living Donor Collective participation, by represented program organ type.
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Facilitating factors for Living Donor Collective participation, by role of representing respondent.
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