Cardiac Transplant Disorder Clinical Trial
Official title:
Don't Throw Your Heart Away: Medical Student Study 2
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).
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:
Condition 1 ("baseline" condition): view only combined transplant survival (e.g. transplant
survival rate not stratified by number and quality of donor hearts accepted at each center)
Condition 2: view only stratified transplant survival (e.g. transplant survival rate
stratified into patients who received excellent donor organs and patients who received less
than optimal donor organs)
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). In order to
identify the decision process that underlies this choice pattern, the investigators will
examine a putative mediator. Specifically, participants will be asked to rate the extent to
which they considered patients' chances of getting an excellent heart, avoiding a
less-than-optimal heart, and getting any type of heart when making their choice between the
two hospitals.
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