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About Choices in Transplantation and Sharing (ACTS) project is a community-based intervention to increase organ donor commitment in African American Communities
- ACTS II
- Living ACTS
Created in 2016, the Allocation System Changes for Equity in Kidney Transplantation (ASCENT) study was a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation trial to evaluate the ASCENT intervention within 655 U.S. dialysis facilities with low waitlisting. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of a multi-level, multi-component intervention targeted to the staff at outpatient U.S. dialysis facilities within the lowest tertile for transplant waitlisting. [Learn more]
Early Steps to Transplant Access Registry
The Early Steps Transplant Access Registry is a collaborative project among transplant centers to collect data on early steps in the transplant process, including referral to a transplant center and start of the transplant evaluation process, in order to establish a population-based estimate of access to transplantation. These are important steps in the transplant process that are not currently captured in national surveillance data such as the United States Renal Data System and the United Network for Organ Sharing. In 2012, the three kidney transplant centers in the state of Georgia collaborated and shared data on these steps to establish the feasibility of collecting these data from transplant centers. [Learn more].
More information about the project, including how to participate, benefits of participating, the data dictionary, and data use agreements, is available here.
RaDIANT = Reducing Disparities in Access to kidNey Transplantation Study [Learn more]
- the RaDIANT Regional Study
- the RaDIANT National Expansion Study
The Transplant Referral Exchange (T-REX) is a partnership with Apex Health Innovations (AHI) to develop an electronic transplant referral application. The application is multi-module, web-enabled software focusing on the collection and management of ESRD patient information. [Learn more]
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