Don't Throw Your Heart Away: Medical Student Study 2

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Conditions studied: Cardiac Transplant Disorder

In brief

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. 125 medical student participants will be recruited from University of Pittsburgh Medical School and randomized to one of two 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 the hospital that they would consider to be "higher performing" between two hospitals: one hospital with a 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).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04176796

Run by

Carnegie Mellon University

People needed

105

Starts

2019-11-27

Expected to finish

2020-03-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-23

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participants will be asked to participate if they confirm the following inclusion criteria in the consent form.
• 18 years of age or older
• must read and understand the information in the consent form
• must want to participate in the research and continue with the survey
• must live in United States
• 2nd, 3rd, or 4th year medical student at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

You may not qualify if…

• participants who do not meet primary criterion of being a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th year medical student at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Where it is running

• Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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