The OPTN/UNOS board of directors approved several policy and bylaws changes at the November 2014 meeting. This report provides details, including upcoming policy language and implementation dates.
- Aligning OPTN policies with the 2013 PHS guidelines
- Expanding HLA typing requirements
- Kidney paired donation histocompatibility testing requirements
- Requiring the reporting of aborted living donor recovery procedures
- New and revised requirements for the informed consent of living donors
- New and revised requirements for living donor evaluations
- Capping the HCC exception score at 34
- Delay the HCC exception score assignment
- Clarify data submission and documentation requirements
- Request for exceptions based on geographic isolation
- Modifications to the imminent and eligible neurological death data reporting definitions
- Proposed ABO subtyping consistency policy modifications
- Require the collection of serum lipase for pancreas donors
- Allow non-substantive changes to the OPTN policies and bylaws
- Reporting additional data for candidates with an LAS of 50 or higher
- Modifications to approved lung allocation policy
- Clarification to membership and personnel requirements for VCA programs
