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Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Database on the OSDC

Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Database on the OSDC. Christine Harvey ceharvey@mitre.org Rafael Suarez rsuarez@uchicago.edu. OPTN. Collects and manages scientific data related to organ donations and transplants in the U.S.

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Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Database on the OSDC

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  1. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Database on the OSDC Christine Harvey ceharvey@mitre.org Rafael Suarez rsuarez@uchicago.edu

  2. OPTN • Collects and manages scientific data related to organ donations and transplants in the U.S. • 118,000 people on the organ waiting list in the America • Comprehensive data on every registrant • Age • Sex • Ethnicity • Citizenship • Blood Type • Location • Reason for transplant

  3. Current Work • Addition of two databases to the OSDC • 2010 U.S. Census Data • Official Hospital Compare Database • Contact with UNOS regarding accessing the database • Short research proposal in progress

  4. Future Work • Continue efforts to make the OPTN data on the OSDC • Determine needs to make the databases of interest collaborative Normalized waiting list additions Normalized waiting list removals Normalized waiting list size

  5. Research Questions • Locations vs. quality of transplant process • Geographic factors: Wealth, overall area health, hospital rankings, household size, local industries… • Transplant factors: Length of waiting list, time waiting, transplants performed, transplant survival… • Where do differences exist? Can we determine why? Can an improved awareness help the situation? • Could improvements be made to the current transplant process to increase the number of transplants performed and/or improve the survival rates of transplanted patients?

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