VIDEO: Researchers discuss increased organ offers, workload for liver, kidney allocation
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Between 2019 and 2021, organ offers and workload over time for liver and kidney allocation increased significantly, according to findings presented at the American Transplant Congress.
In this video, Anji Wall, MD, PhD, a transplant surgeon at Baylor University Medical Center, and Vikrant Reddy, a clinical research assistant at Baylor University Medical Center, discuss their study findings.
“We were able to calculate some rough estimates for the hours worked in a month by different groups in November 2019 and July 2021, and we saw a 97% overall increase in monthly hours worked, or nearly two times increase, which indicates a significant burden and workload,” Reddy said.
Analyses revealed organ offers per month increased 134% and the number of organs transplanted remained stable. Additionally, the percent of organs not transplanted to total offers increased from 54% to 75%. In regard to workload, surgeons worked on 51% of total offers, center coordinators worked on 17% of total offers and answering service coordinators worked on 100% of total offers.
“The take-home message is that the workload for organ donor call teams has increased substantially,” Wall concluded. She added, “We all need to work together to come up with center-level filters and workflows that can improve our efficiency so that we’re able to capture the organ offers that are going to result in kidney transplantation, but eliminate the many offers that are either not transplantable or the ones that never become primary for our patients.”
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