Don't Throw Your Heart Away: Patient Study 4

Don't Throw Your Heart Away: Patient Study 4

This empirical study tests whether transplant center performance data that reflect center donor acceptance rates influence patients and their family members to evaluate centers with high organ decline rates less favorably than centers with low organ decline rates. 400 transplant patients and family members will be recruited from transplant support group social media websites and randomized to one of four different information presentation conditions. Upon viewing a pair of outcome tables corresponding to their condition, the participants are asked to choose which hospital is higher performing (one hospital with a non-selective "accepting" strategy and one hospital with a more selective "cherrypicking" strategy.

Inclusion Criteria:

Participants will be asked to participate if they confirm the following inclusion criteria in the consent form.

1. 18 years of age or older
2. must read and understand the information in the consent form
3. must want to participate in the research and continue with the survey
4. must be a pre- or post-transplant patient or family member of the transplant patient

Exclusion Criteria:

Participants who do not meet the primary criterion of being a pre- or post-transplant patient or family member of the transplant patient.