Solid Organ Transplantation During COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Web-based Survey on Resources' Allocation.

ABSTRACT: Solid organ transplants (SOTs) are life-saving interventions, recently challenged by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). SOTs require a multistep process, which can be affected by COVID-19 at several phases.

Methods

SOT-specialists, COVID-19-specialists, and medical ethicists designed an international survey according to CHERRIES guidelines. Personal opinions about continuing SOTs, safe managing of donors and recipients, as well as equity of resources' allocation were investigated. The survey was sent by e-mail. Multiple approaches were used (corresponding authors from Scopus, websites of scientific societies, COVID-19 webinars). After the descriptive analysis, univariate and multivariate ordinal regression analysis was performed.

Results

There were 1819 complete answers fro

SUBMITTER: Giovinazzo F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8184017 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature