{"id":4847,"date":"2022-06-29T07:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:09:21","slug":"organ-procurement-and-transplant-board-votes-to-establish-race-neutral-egfr-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/06\/29\/organ-procurement-and-transplant-board-votes-to-establish-race-neutral-egfr-equation\/","title":{"rendered":"Organ procurement and transplant board votes to establish race-neutral eGFR equation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4847\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network Board of Directors has unanimously voted to remove the race coefficient from eGFR equations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several organizations have called for the removal of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/nephrology\/20220609\/researchers-identify-preferable-egfr-equation-without-race-coefficient\" target=\"_blank\">race coefficient<\/a>\u00a0because it puts Black patients on the transplant list at a disadvantage. Following the vote by its board, the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) will be implementing a race-neutral eGFR equation within 30 days. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/nephrology\/20220628\/organ-procurement-and-transplant-board-votes-to-establish-raceneutral-egfr-equation\">Read the full story in Healio.<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4847\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network Board of Directors has unanimously voted to remove the race coefficient from eGFR equations. Several organizations have called for the removal of the\u00a0race &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/06\/29\/organ-procurement-and-transplant-board-votes-to-establish-race-neutral-egfr-equation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Organ procurement and transplant board votes to establish race-neutral eGFR equation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3832,"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":[45,912,368,2],"tags":[640,639,638],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1293","post_likes_plusCounter":"1","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847"}],"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=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4848,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions\/4848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}