. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 7.

Published in final edited form as: Clin Transplant. 2019 Jun 19;33(7):e13617. doi: 10.1111/ctr.13617

Table 1.

Recruitment

Number of Institutions Approved for HOPE Transplants^*	Number of Institutions Enrolling Patients for HOPE transplants	Number of Institutions Invited to Participate	Total number of HIRAs identified	Number of Institutions with a HIRA currently in place	Number of HIRAs Interviewed
25	20	20^**	27	17	15^***

As of September 15, 2018. Available at https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/learn/professional-education/hope-act/

^**

In some instances, several invitations were sent to different staff members at the same institution in an effort to reach the individual(s) serving as a HOPE Independent Recipient Advocate (IA).

^***

representing 12 distinct institutions