Time to discard the term "discard"

Allyson Hart; Rachel E Patzer; Julie Spear; Ryutaro Hirose; Ameen Tabatabai; Nicholas L Wood; Cory R Schaffhausen; David A Axelrod; Ajay K Israni; Jon J Snyder

doi:10.1016/j.ajt.2023.01.018

Time to discard the term "discard"

Am J Transplant. 2023 May;23(5):608-610. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.01.018. Epub 2023 Feb 3.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Electronic address: Hart1044@umn.edu.
² Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³ Deceased Donor Family Member, Region 8 Representative, Patient Affairs Committee, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁴ Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁵ Patient representative, Patient and Family Advisory Subcommittee, Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁶ Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
⁷ Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Department of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
⁸ Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

PMID: 36740191
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.01.018

Abstract

The 2022 Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Consensus Conference "People Driven Transplant Metrics" offered an opportunity for a diverse group of stakeholders in the solid organ transplant community to exchange ideas about what information and metrics are important to different stakeholders. Participating patients and family members called on the transplant community to cease using the term "discards" to refer to donated organs that are not transplanted.

Keywords: Deceased organ donation; Discard.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Donor Selection
Humans
Kidney Transplantation*
Organ Transplantation*
Tissue Donors
Tissue and Organ Procurement*