Improving Organ Usage and Placement Efficiency

In September 2023, the OPTN Board of Directors created an OPTN task force to study and make recommendations on ways to increase the number of donated organs used for transplant and to increase the efficiency of the organ placement process. The task force is named Expeditious: Organ Usage through Placement Efficiency. The name was chosen to convey boldness and efficiency in the group’s work.

The task force will review a number of recommendations and studies already performed in the realm of process improvement and efficiency. It will also actively solicit feedback from the donation and transplant clinician community, as well as from people with personal experience with donation or transplantation.

The task force has set the bold aim of achieving 60,000 successful, lifesaving deceased donor transplants annually in the U.S. by the end of 2026. That number represents a 58% increase in deceased donor transplants over the next three years.

This video provides additional detail about the process the Task Force used to establish the bold aim.

The task force will bring the results of its deliberations, and any recommendations for action steps, to the OPTN Board of Directors or the OPTN Executive Committee. Any potential policy actions will be referred to the appropriate OPTN committee(s) according to the policy development process.