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Policy Rewrite Parking Lot Quick Fixes

This proposal aims to enhance policy readability, consistency, and usability by addressing substantive changes left unresolved. It includes quick fixes from the "parking lot" and streamlined policy terms, definitions, and requirements.

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Policy Rewrite Parking Lot Quick Fixes

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  1. Policy Rewrite Parking Lot Quick Fixes Policy Oversight Committee (POC) Fall 2014

  2. The Problem • OPTN Policies Plain Language Rewrite (effective Feb. 1, 2014) • Rewrite did not address substantive changes • “Parking Lot” contains substantive changes we still need to address

  3. Goal of the Proposal • Clarify and increase policy readability & consistency • Identify potential non-controversial changes that will increase usability • Increase understanding of actual policy requirements vs. recommendations

  4. How the Proposal will Achieve its Goal • Identify quick fixes from the “parking lot” • Circulate proposed changes to the relevant Committees • UNOS staff and POC address comments and concerns about proposed changes

  5. How the Proposal will Achieve its Goal • Changed “shoulds” to “must” for true policy requirements • Standardized time periods (days rather than weeks or months) • Streamlined administrative rules and definitions (deleted duplicate definitions) • More consistently used common policy terms (ex: transplant hospital versus center) • Deleted outdated or superfluous sections • Made minor clerical and punctuation changes

  6. What Members will Need to Do • Become familiar with new policy language once it is effective • Board review – June 2015 If approved, effective date is Sept. 1, 2015 • Proposal doesn’t change current routine compliance monitoring • Members are expected to maintain documentation of data entered in UNet and provide documentation upon request

  7. Questions? • Yolanda Becker, MDChair, Policy Oversight Committee ybecker@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu • Leigh A. Kades, MA Liaison, Policy Oversight Committee leigh.kades@unos.org

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