OPTN News

9/29/23: Read a data monitoring report on a policy change to prohibit transplant programs from using calculations that include a race-based variable.

9/29/23: Access the updated patient information letter required by OPTN policy. The letter is also now available in Spanish, French, Korean, and Aramaic.

9/29/23: View a list of 34 research studies relating to OPTN topics that were presented at the 2023 American Transplant Congress.

9/26/23: The OPTN announces an update to the median MELD at transplant (MMaT) values, which affect many liver transplant candidates with exception scores.

9/26/23: Learn about a town hall meeting about plans for a task force to gather community feedback on improving the efficiency of organ usage and placement.

9/14/23: Learn about the offer acceptance ratio, a new risk-adjusted pre-transplant performance monitoring metric, which went into effect on July 27, 2023.

9/14/23: Learn about the Learning Congress, which concluded the OPTN DCD Lung Transplant Collaborative by highlighting the work of 29 participating hospitals.

9/11/23: Learn about improvements to OPTN policies on the medical urgency scores used to prioritize liver transplant candidates.

8/30/23: Learn about a new OPTN dashboard showing trends in integration between OPTN member organizations’ computer systems and the OPTN computer system.

7/27/23: The OPTN offers 14 items for review during the summer 2023 public comment cycle and encourages the community to provide feedback.