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Item Developing A Model for An Integrated Transplantation Network(2018-10-18) Kambhampati, PraneethThe research project focuses on Developing A Model for an Integrated Transplantation Network. The question that the research attempts to answer is “What is the relationship between OPOs, NPOs, Transplant Hospitals, Pharmaceutical companies, Registration Rates and Transplantation Rates. We believe that organ transplantation rates are dependent not only on registration rates but also the accessibility of organ procurement organizations, transplant hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and facilitation networks. I hypothesize that the predicted order of importance is OPO’s, Transplant Hospitals, NPO Networks, Registration rates and lastly pharmaceutical companies. To answer this question, the methods will be analytical based on data available concerning the transplant rates over time with regards to three main states: Texas, Minnesota and Alaska. The research falls under the umbrella of health care policies focusing specifically on organ transplants in the states based on policies that implement new units in the Transplantation Network. Ultimately, this research seeks to provide a direction for future policies so that the members of the Transplantation network can be more successful.Item Identifying Breakdowns in the Integrated Transplantation Network(2019-05) Kambhampati, PraneethOrgan transplantation is a modern marvel of medicine. Yet even though the supply of organs has increased over time, the number of people that need organs has increased at a larger rate. The scope of the project is to create a supply and demand model of the transplantation network and to determine where the breakdowns are occurring. The transplantation supply process requires that the potential donor die either via brain death or cardiac death in a hospital. The organ or organs are then harvested by an organ procurement organization (OPO) who obtains approval from the family to collect the organ and then transfers it to the transplant hospital where the organ is transplanted into the recipient. This thesis seeks to explain the transplantation process and some of the breakdowns in the supply portion of the model, specifically with the OPOs and transplant hospitals.