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OPO Frequently Asked Questions


General Questions
  1. What does ECD mean?
    ECD stands for expanded criteria donor—that is, a donor who either is over 60 years of age or is between 50 and 59 years of age and meets two of the following three conditions: died of a stroke, had a history of hypertension, or had a serum creatinine greater than 1.5.
  2. How does the SRTR define living vs. deceased donors?
    Living Donor
    A living person who donates an organ for transplantation, such as a kidney or a segment of a lung, liver, pancreas, or intestine. Living donors may be blood relatives, emotionally related individuals, or altruistic strangers.

    Deceased Donor
    An individual whose tissues or organs are donated after his or her death. Such donations come from two sources: patients who have suffered brain death and patients whose hearts have irreversibly stopped beating. The latter group is referred to as non-heart-beating or donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors. Throughout this report, we have used the term deceased donor instead of cadaveric donor.
  3. I have additional questions. How can I contact the SRTR?
    Please use our online data request form or call us at 800-830-9664. Details about the available data can be found here: data requests
General Questions about Program-Specific Reports
  1. How can I get previously published CSRs and OSRs?
    Previously published CSRs and OSRs are available on our website at CSR and OSR Archives.
  2. What is the timeline for each round and where I can find information on future rounds?
    Updated CSRs and OSRs are released every six months. Details on upcoming reports are available on the Report Timeline page.
  3. I’m having trouble printing PDFs.
    PDFs: For best printing results, please select the "Download Report in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format." You will need to have Adobe Acrobat installed to view the reports. You can download this free program at www.adobe.com/acrobat
Organ Donation Rate Questions
  1. What does “risk-adjusted” mean?
    Risk adjustment is a statistical method of accounting for the impact of variations in patient (or service area) characteristics on an outcome of interest (e.g., mortality).Using risk adjustment when comparing patient or facility outcomes helps us ask, “What result could we expect for similar patients (or service areas, for OPOs) based on the national experience?” A risk-adjusted expected value is usually a more appropriate comparison point than a national average, because it takes into account the differences between patients or service areas served by different transplant centers or OPOs.
  2. How can I find measures of donation rates by OPO or hospital?
    Tables 3 and 3A in the OPO-specific reports report OPO and hospital-level counts of deaths eligible for consideration for organ donation (eligible deaths) and counts of actual donors who meet the criteria for an eligible death.
  3. Why isn’t my hospital listed in OSR Table 3A?
    These data are published for each hospital within an OPO’s Donation Service Area (DSA) that reports at least one eligible death or donor not meeting the “eligible death” criteria.
  4. How frequently are the Program and OPO -Specific Report risk-adjusted models updated?
    All transplant program and OPO models are re-evaluated and updated as necessary every six months during each Center-Specific and OPO-Specific report release cycle.
Questions for programs completing secure site review of data
  1. Why can’t I make changes to my program’s data after the deadline?
    The SRTR works to maintain fair and consistent policies regarding review of data and reports. Changing any data after analyses are completed affects all reports, not just those for your center. The SRTR sends a memo to all centers and OPOs in the month before the data capture listing all upcoming deadlines for submission. Institutions have the opportunity to review draft reports on the secure website twice a year, beginning on April 1st and October 1st, at a time when data can still be modified for the final report. Once tables are finalized, centers have an opportunity to comment on the reports before they are available for public viewing. The comments, which will be published with the reports on the the public website, may explain irregularities in the data reported to the OPTN, upon which the SRTR statistics are based.

    Current deadlines for center-specific and OPO reports can be found on the Report Timeline page
  2. How do I make changes to my program’s data?
    Centers are not required to submit any data to the SRTR, which receives all of its data from OPTN/UNOS. The only thing centers need to do to ensure that we have accurate information is ensure that their forms are all filed completely and correctly in UNet by the deadline (usually October 31 or April 30 for reports published in January or July, respectively). Current deadlines for center-specific and OPO reports can be found on the Report Timeline page
  3. How do I get a password?
    Please call the SRTR at 800-830-9664. For security reasons, we are unable to email passwords or user IDs.
  4. How do I change contact information (e.g., password contacts)?
    Please contact the SRTR at 800-830-9664.
  5. I can not access the secure site.
    Please bookmark this address: https://securesrtr.transplant.hrsa.gov. You will need the correct user ID and password to access secure content. Please reference the letter sent to you by the SRTR. If you are still having trouble, please contact the SRTR at 800-830-9664, or by email at srtr@arborresearch.org.
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