- Industry: Government; Health care
- Number of terms: 396
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
HRSA is the primary U.S. Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable.
The quality standards certification obtained by UNOS from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to ensure optimal quality of all information technology activities and processes including Organ Center practices, user training and support services, and all processes associated data collection, validation, monitoring and reporting, policy implementation. See International Organization for Standardization.
Industry:Health care
The removal or retrieval of organs from a donor for transplantation.
Industry:Health care
The scoring system used to measure illness severity in liver transplant candidates. This system is used in the allocation of livers to adults, established in February 2002. The MELD system uses three laboratory values (bilirubin, creatinine and INR) to calculate a score that is predictive of the risk of death within three months on the liver waiting list. Livers are allocated to waitlisted patients with chronic liver disease based upon this score. See Pediatric End Stage Liver Disease (PELD) Scoring System.
Industry:Health care
The standard error measures the level of precision associated with an estimate for a population, usually the mean. Categories that include a large number of transplants generally have small standard errors, while categories with relatively few transplants generally have large standard errors. Survival rates associated with a smaller standard error are more precise than those associated with a larger standard error. Standard errors are presented in the graft and patient survival rates tables.
Industry:Health care
The standing OPTN committee charged with advising the Board of Directors and other committees about patient and donor family perspectives on proposed policies and issues and acting as an advocate for organ donors and transplant candidates and recipients.
Industry:Health care
The standing OPTN committee charged with considering issues relating to donor and recipient histocompatibility, organ alocation, tissue typing consistency and histocompatibility laboratory qualifications, including cost to benefit ratio and impact on organ transplantation. The committee will consider the broad implications of such issues and will deal with specific individual issues or situations.
Industry:Health care
The standing OPTN committee charged with considering issues relating to heart and lung procurement, allocation, and transplantation, including medical, scientific and ethical aspects. The committee will consider the broad implications of such issues and will deal with specific individual issues or situations.
Industry:Health care
The standing OPTN committee charged with considering issues relating to organ procurement organizations and increasing organ procurement efficiency and effectiveness to include medical, scientific and ethical aspects. The committee provides input to other OPTN committees as wel as to the OPTN Board of Directors. As necessary, the committee conducts research related to specific issues under consideration.
Industry:Health care
The standing OPTN committee charged with considering issues relating to organ procurement, investi- gating and recommending the approval of new organ preservation and shipment techniques, establishing practices to increase the supply of donated organs, and educating public and professional audiences about the need to increase donation.
Industry:Health care
The standing OPTN committee charged with considering issues that affect the coordination of efforts related to organ procurement, organ allocation, the overall transplant process and the impact of technical innovations on allocation and operations, and how these affect patient/family care, donors and donor families.
Industry:Health care
