{"id":4809,"date":"2022-06-24T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:09:23","slug":"optn-board-of-directors-expected-to-require-transplant-hospitals-to-use-race-neutral-calculations-in-assessing-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/06\/24\/optn-board-of-directors-expected-to-require-transplant-hospitals-to-use-race-neutral-calculations-in-assessing-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"OPTN Board of Directors expected to require transplant hospitals to use race-neutral calculations in assessing patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4809\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Key points:<br>-OPTN Board to take up recommendation June 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-If approved, implementation may occur within 30 days<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Transplant programs and labs should be aware of the pending action and consider<strong> <\/strong>options for transition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At its next in-person meeting, the Board of Directors of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) will consider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/optn.transplant.hrsa.gov\/policies-bylaws\/public-comment\/establish-optn-requirement-for-race-neutral-egfr-calculations\/\">a proposal to require transplant hospitals to use race-neutral calculations<\/a>\u00a0 when estimating a patient\u2019s glomerular filtration rates (GFR). This proposed change aims to reduce health disparities and address inequities for Black kidney candidates by more accurately estimating their GFR values. The board will next meet in Richmond, Va., June 26-27, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/unos.org\/news\/optn-board-of-directors-expected-to-require-transplant-hospitals-to-use-race-neutral-calculations-in-assessing-patients\/\">Read more from UNOS.<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4809\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Key points:-OPTN Board to take up recommendation June 27 -If approved, implementation may occur within 30 days -Transplant programs and labs should be aware of the pending action and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/06\/24\/optn-board-of-directors-expected-to-require-transplant-hospitals-to-use-race-neutral-calculations-in-assessing-patients\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OPTN Board of Directors expected to require transplant hospitals to use race-neutral calculations in assessing patients&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,912,368,29],"tags":[170,624,623,24],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"2","views":"1396","post_likes_plusCounter":"2","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}