• Two-year monitoring report summarizes National Liver Review Board activity
  Monday, July 25, 2022
  Report covers activity since the implementation of the acuity circles liver allocation policy.
  

• Two new transplant performance metrics now in effect, are first phase of enhanced monitoring system
  Tuesday, July 19, 2022
  New system will more holistically evaluate program performance.
  

• Assessment in progress of newly identified death data
  Wednesday, July 13, 2022
  Most newly identified deaths occurred prior to current periods of analysis.
  

• OPTN Offer Filters, an innovative tool that increases efficiency, is available to all U.S. kidney programs
  Thursday, July 7, 2022
  Programs can use both custom and recommended filters in their acceptance processes.
  

• One-year monitoring report shows increase in kidney transplants following policy changes
  Friday, July 1, 2022
  Report captures first 12 months of data after implementation of 250 nautical mile circles.
  

• OPTN Board approves elimination of race-based calculation for transplant candidate listing
  Tuesday, June 28, 2022
  The action, to take effect July 27, will ensure that all candidates are consistently assessed in an equitable fashion.
  

• OPTN Board approves improvements to medical urgency scoring of liver transplant candidates
  Tuesday, June 28, 2022
  The actions will increase the equity of access to liver transplant, and were among a number of additional measures adopted by the board.
  

• One-year monitoring report available for pancreas allocation policies
  Friday, June 24, 2022
  Report captures first 12 months of data after implementation of 250 nautical mile circles.
  

• Report lists median MELD at transplant score for each donor hospital
  Thursday, June 23, 2022
  Donor hospital scores will be used effective June 28.
  

• OPTN research presented at 2022 American Transplant Congress
  Tuesday, June 14, 2022
  Meeting held in Boston June 4-8.
  

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