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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Kidney Int. 2021 Apr 30;100(3):660–671. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2021.04.020

Table 3:

Virtual crossmatch for deceased donor kidney transplants among the United Network for Organ Sharing regions and among centers stratified by annual deceased donor transplant volumes before and after the implementation of 2014 kidney allocation system

UNOS
Region
Pre-KAS Post-KAS VXM (post-KAS vs pre-KAS)
Total DDKT VXM, N (%) Total DDKT VXM, N (%) Change in VXM (%p) OR for VXM P value
1 1,161 91 (7.8%) 1,853 213 (11.5%) +3.7% 1.5 (1.2, 2.0) 0.001
2 4,048 83 (2.1%) 6,283 331 (5.3%) +3.2% 2.7(2.1,3.4) <.001
3 4,422 401 (9.1%) 7,189 1,030 (14.3%) +5.3% 1.7(1.5,1.9) <.001
4 2,719 112 (4.1%) 5,027 218 (4.3%) +0.2% 1.1(0.8,1.3) 0.6
5 5,427 1,739 (32.0%) 8,164 3,173 (38.9%) +6.8% 1.3(1.3,1.4) <.001
6 1,285 10 (0.8%) 1,918 12 (0.6%) −0.2% 0.8 (0.4,1.8) 0.6
7 2,166 288 (13.3%) 3,523 541 (15.4%) +2.1% 1.2 (1.0,1.4) 0.03
8 2,285 36 (1.6%) 3,321 283 (8.5%) +6.9% 5.8 (4.1, 8.3) <.001
9 2,061 28 (1.4%) 3,317 216 (6.5%) +5.2% 5.1 (3.4, 7.5) <.001
10 2,611 48 (1.8%) 3,966 73 (1.8%) +0.0% 1.0 (0.7,1.4) 0.9
11 3,465 247 (7.1%) 5,260 459 (8.7%) +1.6% 1.2(1.1,1.5) 0.007
Transplant center volumes (DDKT/year)
Ql (≤22), n = 54 1,236 87 (7.0%) 2,081 152 (7.3%) +0.3% 1.0 (0.8,1.4) 0.8
Q2 (23–46), n =55 4,609 326(7.1%) 6,921 570 (8.2%) +1.1% 1.2 (1.0,1.4) 0.02
Q3 (47–79), n = 55 7,505 483 (6.4%) 13,133 1,119 (8.5%) +2.1% 1.4(1.2,1.5) <.001
Q4 (≥80), n = 55 18,300 2,187 (12.0%) 27,686 4,708 (17.0%) +5.0% 1.5 (1.4,1.6) <.001
Total 31,650 3,083 (9.7%) 49,821 6,549 (13.1%) +3.4% 1.35 (1.3,1.41) <.001

DDKT: Deceased donor kidney transplantation; KAS: Kidney allocation system, VXM: Virtual crossmatch.