P8105 Final Project - NY Organ Donation


New York State

Registration Rate 2008 - 2018

Explore Change by Years in Shiny

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Registration Over Time

a generally increasing trend across the years

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The registry enrollments showed a generally increasing trend across the years. However, note that there is a sudden change in registry enrollments on 2009-06-01 and 2017-10-1. Curiously, the enrollment even declined for some counties on 2017-10-1, which indicates an aspect of limitation of the dataset.



Policy Analysis

Legislative policy that affect donnor registration rate

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Analyzing Trends of Organ Donor Enrollment in New York State



Organ donation is a public health crisis in New York where there are currently 9,449 people waiting for an organ transplant. Due to the scarcity of donated organs, many people do not survive long enough to receive a donated organ, and those that do may have waited years for an organ. At Columbia University Medical center, over 2016 and 2017, the mortality rate for the kidney donation waitlist was 7.2 percent.

Like every state, NY has a first person consent policy for deceased organ donation. If a person on the donor registry list dies and is a candidate for organ donation, his or her family cannot prevent an organ procurement agency from gifting the organs to a person on an organ waitlist. Although uniform enforcement of this law is questionable, first person consent is believed to be important in supplying organ donations.

We were interested in exploring how NY donor designation share (percent of eligible people enrolled) has changed over the last decade in response to a series of policies. We attempted to explore the association between county-level demographic parameters and registration rate, trying to account for differences in registration share among counties in New York State. We were also interested in comparing country donation rates, to see if a targeted approach to increasing NY’s organ donation rate may be warranted.



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Image sources :
1: healthconceptsltd.com
2: thejakartapost.com
 

A P8105 Final Project by Nick , Jack , SiJia , Alina and Shu