Shifting transplant center performance evaluations upstream.

Abstract

The field of solid organ transplantation is a unique healthcare context with mandatory data collection for all transplant candidates, recipients and donors. An impactful use of these data is assessment of quality of transplant center performance as currently conducted by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. The historical focus of center performance has primarily been one-year post-transplant survival. In this issue of the American Journal of Transplantation, Paul and colleagues present a study describing a novel metric, the waitlisting rate, as an indicator of transplant center performance.