Living Organ Donor Health Care Priorities During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Living Organ Donor Health Care Priorities During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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在COVID-19-19大流行期间,活器官捐赠者的卫生保健优先事项。
DOI:
10.1016/j.ekir.2021.01.031
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发表时间:
2021-04
影响因子:
6
通讯作者:
Harhay MN
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作者:
Zaidi H;Klassen AC;Fleetwood J;Lentine KL;Reese PP;Mittelman M;Bertha R;Harhay MN
At the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the majority of transplant programs in the United States suspended living donor kidney and liver transplant surgeries. 1 Although many programs have since resumed these procedures, the cumulative number of living donor kidney and liver transplants between March 13, 2020 (the date of the COVID-19 emergency declaration) and June 1, 2020 was almost 70% lower than the cumulative number over the same timeframe in 2019. 2 In a recent national survey study of transplant programs, 56% of respondents cited donor and transplant candidate concerns as a substantial barrier to living donor transplant during the pandemic. 3 Although transplant programs have focused on steps to mitigate COVID-19 transmission risk to living donors (eg, by using telemedicine for clinical evaluations and requiring predonation selfquarantine), 3, 4 more knowledge is needed on donor concerns and attitudes about donation during the pandemic to improve processes of shared decisionmaking and donor-centered care. As transplant programs in the United States and across the world continue to face dynamic conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the goal of this study was to elucidate the perspectives of previous and prospective organ donor members of an online support group (Supplementary Methods) about preferred information sources, priorities for mitigating donationrelated risks, and excess health-related and other burdens experienced during the pandemic. We also assessed whether donor perspectives differed by local COVID-19 burden, relationship to recipient, and donor organ type.Among approximately 550 active support group members, 157 individuals responded to the survey study (28%), of which 148 met the inclusion criteria (Supplementary Methods). The majority of respondents were previous or prospective kidney donors (n= 111, 75%). The cohort was 94% non-Hispanic white and 91% female. Compared with prospective donors, previous donors were older (51–70 years of age: 13% vs. 33%, P= 0.04), whereas other demographics were similar (Table 1). Respondents resided in 40 US states and the District of Columbia. Respondents rated personal doctors as their most important information source (median importance 90 [interquartile range {IQR} 72–100]), followed by transplant programs (86 [IQR 65.5–100]) and official websites (79 [IQR 58–92]). Social media was the least important source of information (26 [IQR 11–54]). Ratings on sources of information did not differ by respondents' relationships with transplant recipients, donor organ type, previous or prospective donor status, or COVID-19 case burden in their state on the date of survey response.
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