Table 1.

Summary of survey questions for access and demand themes by data type and by respondent group (denoted by “X”)

Question	Data type	Respondent type
		Eye bank	ODO	TxO
Demographics
Transplants and types performed	Ordinal & Ratio			X
Province/Organization	Categorical	X	X	X
Organization’s role in system	Categorical	X	X
Access Theme
Access to tissue for transplant	Ordinal (Likert)	X		X
Allocation process	Categorical	X		X
Fairness in allocation	Categorical	X		X
Factors in allocation	Categorical			X
Waitlist management practices	Categorical			X
Wait time definitions	Categorical	X		X
Estimated wait time	Ordinal	X	X	X
Appropriate wait time	Ordinal (Likert)	X	X	X
Demand Theme
National	Categorical	X		X
Forecasting activity	Categorical & Qualitative	X	X	X
Impact of emerging technologies	Ordinal (Likert)	X	X	X
Clinical Outcomes	Categorical	X
Support for national registry	Categorical	X
Role of Prevention	Qualitative			X

[ODO: Organ Donation Organizations, TxO: Transplanting Ophthalmologists]

Participants were also invited to provide qualitative comments in relation to each question/section and for the survey as a whole. In addition to the question sections presented here, participants also provided responses relating to tissue supply and utilization, operational models, and metrics for system performance improvement