Outcomes of Multiple Listing for Adult Heart Transplantation in the United States: Analysis of OPTN Data From 2000 to 2013

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 933-941

  Givens, Raymond C ^a   Dardas, Todd ^b   Clerkin, Kevin J ^a   Restaino, Susan ^a   Schulze, P Christian ^a   Mancini, Donna M ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart transplantation; Multiple listing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DONOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949034774     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.07.012     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Bui A.L., Horwich T.B., Fonarow G.C. Epidemiology and risk profile of heart failure. Nat Rev Cardiol 2011, 8:30-41.
2. Colvin-Adams M., Smith J.M., Heubner B.M., et al. OPTN/SRTR 2013 Annual Data Report: Heart. Am J Transplant 2015, 15(Suppl 2):1-28.
3. Ankeny R.A. Recasting the debate on multiple listing for transplantation through consideration of both principles and practice. Camb Q Healthc Ethics 1999, 8:330-339.
4. Merion R.M., Guidinger M.K., Newmann J.M., Ellison M.D., Port F.K., Wolfe R.A. Prevalence and outcomes of multiple-listing for cadaveric kidney and liver transplantation. Am J Transplant 2004, 4:94-100.
5. Feingold B., Park S.Y., Comer D.M., Webber S.A., Bryce C.L. Multiple listing for pediatric heart transplantation in the U.S.A.: analysis of OPTN registry data from 1995 through 2009. Pediatr Transplant 2013, 17:787-793.
6. Miller T.E. Multiple listing for organ transplantation: autonomy unbounded. Kennedy Inst Ethics J 1992, 2:43-59.
7. White A.J., Ozminkowski R.J., Hassol A., Dennis J.M., Murphy M. The effects of New York state's ban on multiple listing for cadaveric kidney transplantation. Health Serv Res 1998, 33:205-222.
8. Schwartz A., Schiano T., Kim-Schluger L., Florman S. Geographic disparity: the dilemma of lower socioeconomic status, multiple listing, and death on the liver transplant waiting list. Clin Transplant 2014, 28:1075-1079.
9. Internal Revenue Service. SOI Tax Stats- Individual Income Tax Statistics- ZIP Code Data (SOI). Available at: Accessed February 28, 2015. http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Individual-Income-Tax-Statistics-ZIP-Code-Data-%28SOI%29.
10. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Creating and validating an index of socioeconomic status. Available at: Accessed March 15, 2015. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/medicareindicators/medicareindicators3.html.
11. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD USPS ZIP Code Crosswalk Files. Available at: Accessed February 16, 2014. http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/usps_crosswalk.html.
12. Ho DE, Imai K, King G, Stuart EA. MatchIt: nonparametric preprocessing for parametric causal inference. Available at: Accessed October 27, 2015. http://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v042i08.
13. Scrucca L., Santucci A., Aversa F. Competing risk analysis using R: an easy guide for clinicians. Bone Marrow Transplant 2007, 40:381-387.
14. Stevens L.A., Coresh J., Feldman H.I., et al. Evaluation of the modification of diet in renal disease study equation in a large diverse population. J Am Soc Nephrol 2007, 18:2749-2757.
15. Singh T.P., Milliren C.E., Almond C.S., Graham D. Survival benefit from transplantation in patients listed for heart transplantation in the United States. J Am Coll Cardiol 2014, 63:1169-1178.
16. Ubel P.A. Transplantation traffic: geography as destiny for transplant candidates. N Engl J Med 2014, 371:2450-2452.
17. Vagefi P.A., Feng S., Dodge J.L., Markmann J.F., Roberts J.P. Multiple listings as a reflection of geographic disparity in liver transplantation. J Am Coll Surg 2014, 219:496-504.
18. Foraker R.E., Rose K.M., Suchindran C.M., Chang P.P., McNeill A.M., Rosamond W.D. Socioeconomic status, Medicaid coverage, clinical comorbidity, and rehospitalization or death after an incident heart failure hospitalization: Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohort (1987 to 2004). Circ Heart Fail 2011, 4:308-316.
19. Calvillo-King L., Arnold D., Eubank K.J., et al. Impact of social factors on risk of readmission or mortality in pneumonia and heart failure: systematic review. J Gen Intern Med 2013, 28:269-282.
20. Singh T.P., Gauvreau K., Thiagarajan R., Blume E.D., Piercey G., Almond C.S. Racial and ethnic differences in mortality in children awaiting heart transplant in the United States. Am J Transplant 2009, 9:2808-2815.
21. National Transplant Act (NOTA; P.L. 98-507), 1984 Available at: Accessed October 8, 2015. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-98/pdf/STATUTE-98-Pg2339.pdf.
22. Sanaei Ardekani M., Orlowski J.M. Multiple listing in kidney transplantation. Am J Kidney Dis 2010, 55:717-725.
23. American Medical Association. Opinion 2.16. Organ Transplantation Guidelines. Code of Medical Ethics. American Medical Association, 2014. Available at: Accessed October 8, 2015. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics/opinion216.page?
24. Duda L. National organ allocation policy: the final rule. Available at: Accessed November 18, 2015. http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2005/09/hlaw1-0509.html.
25. U.S. Government Publishing Office. Code of Federal Regulations. Title 42. Allocation of Organs. 1999. Available at: Accessed October 8, 2015. http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title42/42cfr121_main_02.tpl.
26. Yang J.A., Naka Y., Ota T., et al. Predictors of prolonged status 1A wait time prior to heart transplant. J Heart Lung Transplant 2013, 32:S143.
27. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Ethical principles in the allocation of human organs. Available at: Accessed March 2, 2015. http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/resources/ethics/ethical-principles-in-the-allocation-of-human-organs/.
28. Krieger N., Chen J.T., Waterman P.D., Soobader M.J., Subramanian S.V., Carson R. Geocoding and monitoring of US socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and cancer incidence: does the choice of area-based measure and geographic level matter?: the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project. Am J Epidemiol 2002, 156:471-482.
29. Garrido M.M., Kelley A.S., Paris J., et al. Methods for constructing and assessing propensity scores. Health Serv Res 2014, 49:1701-1720.