Table 1 Steps to reduce the inactive time (status 7) on the waitlist
From: The impact of systematic review of status 7 patients on the kidney transplant waitlist
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• Create a status 7 focus group led by committed individuals including a physician leader, social worker, financial coordinator, office assistant, pre-transplant coordinator and the quality control officer. • Use programs such as UNOS waitlist to identify patients and stratify them by dialysis vintage, dialysis status, cPRA and other risk factors • Hold frequent, short but focused meetings to identify individual patient’s barriers and develop action plans to overcome those. • Implementation of action plans included reminder patient phone calls, scheduling pending diagnostic tests and consultations etc. • Use the administrative assistant to communicate with the patients when appropriate • Systematic review of result of the action plans • Employ a group accessible electronic patient list to track action plans and update results between the formal meetings. • Promptly remove listed patients whose barriers are considered permanent and insurmountable |