Don't Throw Your Heart Away: Layperson Study 1

NCT04133831 NA COMPLETED Results posted

Publicly available outcome assessments for transplant programs do not make salient that some programs tend to reject many of the hearts they are offered, whereas other programs accept a broader range of donor offers. The investigators use empirical studies to test whether transplant center performance data (i.e. transplant and waitlist outcome statistics) that reflect center donor acceptance rates influence laypersons to evaluate centers with high organ decline rates less favorably than centers with low organ decline rates. 1000 lay participants will be recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk and randomized to one of five different information presentation conditions. Participants will be given an introduction to the donor organ match process, then asked to view the table of transplant outcomes corresponding to the condition they were randomized to. Each participant is asked to choose between two hospitals: one hospital with an non-selective, "accepting" strategy (takes all donor heart offers), and one hospital with a more selective, "cherrypicking" strategy (tends to reject donor offers that are less than "excellent" quality).

Details

Lead sponsor	Carnegie Mellon University
Phase	NA
Status	COMPLETED
Enrolment	1019
Start date	Fri Nov 15 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Completion	Thu Apr 30 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Conditions

• Cardiac Transplant Disorder

Interventions

• Total Survival
• Stratified Transplant Survival

Countries

United States