Table 3:
Percentage of respondents reporting effects of SRTR 5-tier system by lowest reported score among all organ programs at their hospital
This table shows relationships between individual negative effects of the 5-tier system and respondent characteristics, annual transplant volume, and lowest SRTR score using Chi-squared and Fisher’s exact tests.
| Effect | Lowest score among all organ programs | P- value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–2 (%) | 3 (%) | 4–5 (%) | ||
| Negative Effects | ||||
| Increased concern among patients |
37.6 | 21.1 | 8.8 | 0.002 |
| Increased concern among referring providers |
31.2 | 19.7 | 5.9 | 0.006 |
| Lost insurers | 18.3 | 7.0 | 2.9 | 0.02 |
| Lost Patients | 17.2 | 9.9 | 0.0 | 0.01 |
| Positive Effects | ||||
| Decreased concern among patients |
1.1 | 0.0 | 6.1 | 0.1 |
| Decreased concern among referring providers |
1.1 | 0 | 6.1 | 0.1 |
| Gain insurers | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Gain patients | 3.3 | 0 | 6.1 | 0.1 |