Organ donation and transplantation: a multi-stakeholder call to action

R Vanholder, B Domínguez-Gil, M Busic… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Although overall donation and transplantation activity is higher in Europe than on other
continents, differences between European countries in almost every aspect of …

[HTML][HTML] Designing explainable AI to improve human-AI team performance: a medical stakeholder-driven sco** review

HV Subramanian, C Canfield, DB Shank - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The rise of complex AI systems in healthcare and other sectors has led to a growing area of
research called Explainable AI (XAI) designed to increase transparency. In this area …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of organ donation and transplantation rates between opt-out and opt-in systems

A Arshad, B Anderson, A Sharif - Kidney international, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Studies comparing opt-out and opt-in approaches to organ donation have generally
suggested higher donation and transplantation rates in countries with an opt-out strategy …

Disparities in acceptance of deceased donor kidneys between the United States and France and estimated effects of increased US acceptance

O Aubert, PP Reese, B Audry, Y Bouatou… - JAMA internal …, 2019‏ - jamanetwork.com
Importance Approximately 3500 donated kidneys are discarded in the United States each
year, drawing concern from Medicare and advocacy groups. Objective To estimate the …

Association between declined offers of deceased donor kidney allograft and outcomes in kidney transplant candidates

SA Husain, KL King, S Pastan, RE Patzer… - JAMA network …, 2019‏ - jamanetwork.com
Importance In the United States, substantial disparities in access to kidney transplant exist
for wait-listed candidates with end-stage renal disease. The implications of transplant …

Characterization of transplant center decisions to allocate kidneys to candidates with lower waiting list priority

KL King, SA Husain, M Yu, JT Adler, J Schold… - JAMA network …, 2023‏ - jamanetwork.com
Importance Allocation of deceased donor kidneys is meant to follow a ranked match-run list
of eligible candidates, but transplant centers with a 1-to-1 relationship with their local organ …

Major variation across local transplant centers in probability of kidney transplant for wait-listed patients

KL King, SA Husain, JD Schold, RE Patzer… - Journal of the …, 2020‏ - journals.lww.com
Background Geographic disparities in access to deceased donor kidney transplantation
persist in the United States under the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) introduced in 2014 …

[HTML][HTML] Greater complexity and monitoring of the new Kidney Allocation System: implications and unintended consequences of concentric circle kidney allocation on …

JT Adler, SA Husain, KL King, S Mohan - American Journal of …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The deceased donor kidney allocation system in the United States has undergone several
rounds of iterative changes, but these changes were not explicitly designed to address the …

A large-scale retrospective study enabled deep-learning based pathological assessment of frozen procurement kidney biopsies to predict graft loss and guide organ …

Z Yi, C **, MC Menon, P Cravedi, F Tedla, A Soto… - Kidney International, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Lesion scores on procurement donor biopsies are commonly used to guide organ utilization
for deceased-donor kidneys. However, frozen sections present challenges for histological …

Assessment of the utility of kidney histology as a basis for discarding organs in the United States: a comparison of international transplant practices and outcomes

PP Reese, O Aubert, M Naesens, E Huang… - Journal of the …, 2021‏ - journals.lww.com
Background Many kidneys donated for transplant in the United States are discarded
because of abnormal histology. Whether histology adds incremental value beyond usual …