1 / 14

Living Donor Committee Update: Current Projects and Recent Results

This update highlights the current projects of the Living Donor Committee, including proposals for reporting aborted living donor organ recovery procedures, modifying informed consent requirements, and enhancing psychosocial and medical evaluations. It also discusses recent results on the minimum requirements for living kidney donor follow-up and variations in reporting among kidney programs.

castillo
Download Presentation

Living Donor Committee Update: Current Projects and Recent Results

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Living Donor Committee UpdateMary Amanda Dew, PhD November 12-13, 2014

  2. Living Donor Committee UpdateMary Amanda Dew, PhD November 12-13, 2014

  3. Current Projects Three proposals considered by the Board today: • Proposal to Require Reporting Aborted Living Donor Organ Recovery Procedures • Proposal to Modify Existing or Establish New Requirements for the Informed Consent of Living Donors • Proposal to Modify Existing or Establish New Requirements for the Psychosocial and Medical Evaluation of Living Donors

  4. Current Projects – All promote Strategic Goal # 5 – Promote Living Donor Safety 1. Clarify the Status of Domino Donor • Current practice is inconsistent regarding whether domino donors are considered as living donors or recipients for policy requirements and compliance. • Working with the Thoracic, Operations and Safety and Liver Committees to draft proposed policy language • Planning for August 2015 public comment

  5. Current Projects 2. Improve UNetsm Reporting of Aborted Procedures and Non Transplanted Organs • Small policy clarification project to ensure living donor recovery programs report aborted living donor recovery procedures • Current policy does not specifically require reporting aborted living donor recovery procedures on the Living Donor Feedback/Add Donor form

  6. Current Projects 3. New Requirements for the Transport of Living Donor Organ • Joint project with the Operations & Safety Committee • Longstanding project which has not progressed due to lack of supporting evidence • Planning to use the Healthcare Failure Mode Effects Analysis (HFMEA) process to advance project

  7. Recent Projects Minimum Requirements for Living Kidney Donor Follow-up • Policy 18.5 Reporting Requirements after Donation • Effective February 1, 2013 • First preliminary results reported at the World Transplant Congress in July 2014

  8. How many kidney programs are meeting the thresholds required in the new policy?

  9. Percent of LKD Programs Meeting the Initial Policy Thresholds for LKD Follow-up, 6-months post-donation

  10. Is there variation in LKD follow-up reporting among programs?

  11. Percent of Each Program’s LKDs with 6-Month LDF with Lab Data within 60 Days of Donation Anniversary (Feb-Oct 2013)

  12. Percent of Each Program’s LKDs with 6-Month LDF with Lab Data within 60 Days of Donation Anniversary (Feb-Oct 2013) 75.1% of programs met 50% threshold for lab data

  13. Percent of Each Program’s LKDs with 6-Month LDF with Lab Data within 60 Days of Donation Anniversary (Feb-Oct 2013) 24.9% of programs did not meet 50% threshold

  14. Letter to Living Donor Recovery Programs • In each of the past several years, the Committee has coordinated sending a letter to each living donor recovery program reporting the status of their follow-up. • The Committee is preparing to send a letter reporting the status of each living donor recovery center’s follow-up compared to the new policy requirements.

More Related