title: Impact analysis: a method for evaluating the impact of factors in clinical renal transplantation.
abstract: Impact analysis, showing the proportion of patients in each category, is useful in providing a rapid visualization of the current renal transplant situation. It provides a 2-dimensional view of the number of cases and the success rates of each category. From the graphs, one can readily see the impact of changing policies upon overall results. Efforts to reduce cold ischemia time and increase zero HLA-A, -B, -DR mismatched transplants would have a significant impact. Clearly, the greatest adverse impact factor in cadaver kidney transplants today is donor age: transplants from donors aged 40 and older negatively impact current overall success rates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: P I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Terasaki
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cecka
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Gjertson
mesh_terms: D002102:Cadaver; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000502:physiology*; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000401:mortality / Q000502:physiology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000145:classification*; D008297:Male; D009926:Organ Preservation / Q000379:methods; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000145:classification*; D044465:White People