Goal 2
Optimize organ use
Goal description
Optimize organ use for transplantation, while improving equity to benefit all patients.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and reduce key barriers influencing organ non‐use and non‐utilization, promoting best practices and effective strategies across the transplantation community.
- Explore and evaluate allocation strategies for organs at high risk of non‐use.
- Advance equity within the transplant system.
- Decrease non‐utilization rate for heart and lung.
- Decrease non‐use rate for kidney (Stratified by KDPI group).
- Decrease non‐use rate for liver (Stratified by the combination of donor age and DCD status).
- Improve equity: Access‐to‐Transplant Scores (ATS).
- Non‐use rate: The proportion of deceased donor* organs recovered for the purpose of transplant, but not transplanted.
- Non‐utilization rate: The proportion of deceased donor organs not transplanted from all deceased donors.
* Deceased donors are individuals from whom at least one organ is recovered for the purpose of transplantation after declaration of death. All donors were assumed to have two transplantable kidneys and two transplantable lungs.