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January 2012
Upcoming Changes to Program-Specific Reports:

Beginning with the January 2012 public release, the program specific reports will include Table 3A, which will depict transplant and mortality rates for pediatric and adult candidates separately. Table 3 will still show the combined rates.

In addition to the traditional program-specific report, the SRTR will post a beta-release of a new program-specific report to the SRTR secure websites on December 8, 2011. This new report will not reflect the use of new methodologies; instead, it will use color and an enhanced visual display to depict some of the content in the traditional program-specific report. (Note that this beta-release is not intended to be a complete version of the traditional program-specific report.) The SRTR will be seeking feedback from transplant programs regarding the design and layout of this beta-release.
 
Upcoming Change to the OPO-Specific Reports:

Beginning with the January 2012 public release, Table 4 of the OPO-specific reports will contain measures of expected donor yield using the models approved by the OPTN/UNOS Board in June 2011 and by the OPTN Membership and Professional Standards Committee in October 2011.

The OPO-specific reports privately released on the SRTR secure websites on December 8 will also include measures of observed and expected donor yield and whether the OPO meets the review criteria established by the OPTN’s OPO and Membership and Professional Standards Committees. The SRTR will be releasing a Donor Yield Calculator tool that OPOs can use to track observed and expected donor yield. The tool will be made available for download on the secure websites on December 8, 2011.
July 2011
Upcoming Changes to Program-Specific and OPO-Specific Reports

Notice of Upcoming Change to Program-Specific Reports: In the July 2010 release of the program-specific reports, a decision was made to remove functional status from the risk adjustment models for kidney transplant programs. In the January 2011 release of the program-specific reports, functional status was inadvertently included in the risk adjustment models. We have corrected this and functional status will once again be removed from the risk adjustments models to be used in the upcoming July 2011 reporting cycle. This change affects the following risk adjustment models:
  • Kidney, Deceased Donor, Patient Survival
  • Kidney, Deceased Donor, Graft Survival
The SRTR is continuing to investigate the use of functional status in all risk adjustment models.

Notice of Upcoming Change to the OPO-Specific Reports: The July 2011 release of the OPO-specific reports will not include “Observed Notification Measures” as previously reported in Table 3. This change includes removal of the Notifiable Death Count, the Crude Notification Rate, and the Expected Notification Rate, and accompanying statistical comparisons of observed-to-expected notification rates. These data have historically been based on 2004 death information available from the National Center for Health Statistics. The SRTR is exploring options to provide more current data to the OPO community.
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