Jessica Strolin-Goltzman, Amanda Sisselman, Kelly Melekis, Charles Auerbach
Understanding the relationship between school-based health center use, school connection, and academic performance
Health & social work
transplanting organs hepatitis c virus hcvinfected donors hcvnegative recipients led thousands transplants united states since 2016 studies demonstrated disparities utilization kidneys donors due gender education still unknown however disparities seen heart lung transplantation used organ procurement transplantationunited network organ sharing data isolated heart lung transplants november 1 2018 march 31 2023 classifying donors based hcv nucleic acid test nat result hcvnat vs hcvnat fit separate mixedeffects logistic regression models outcome hcvnat donor heart lung transplants primary covariates included 1 raceethnicity 2 sex 3 education level 4 insurance type 5 transplant year study included 26108 adults 14189 isolated heart transplant recipients 11919 isolated lung transplant recipients total 993 70 heart transplants involved hcvnat donor compared 457 38 lung transplants multivariable models among isolated heart transplant recipients women significantly less likely receive hcvnat donor heart odds ratio 079 95 confidence interval ci 067092 p 0003 asian patients 052 95 ci 031086 p 001 multivariable models among isolated lung transplant recipients asians significantly less likely receive hcvnat transplants 031 95 ci 012077 p 001 disparities utilization heart lungs hcvnat donors women asian patients significantly less likely receive transplants