Using Linked Health Service Data in Multimodal Modeling of Kidney Transplant Waitlist Outcomes: Protocol for the Maximizing Organ Donor Utility Systemwide (MODUS) Study

Brenda Maria Rosales   ^{1 *} , MPH, PhD ;   Karan Shah   ^{2 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Nicole De La Mata   ¹ , PhD ;   Heather Baldwin   ¹ , PhD ;   James Hedley   ¹ , PhD ;   Philip Clayton   ³ , MBBS, PhD ;   Melanie Wyld   ^{1, 4} , MBBS, MBA, MPH, PhD ;   Patrick Kelly   ¹ , PhD ;   Kate Wyburn   ^{5, 6} , MBBS, PhD ;   Rachael Morton   ² , PhD ;   Angela Webster   ^{1, 7} , MBBS, PhD ;   MODUS Study Group   ⁸

¹ Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

² NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

³ Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Adelaide, Australia

⁴ Department of Renal and Transplant Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

⁵ Department of Renal Medicine and Transplantation, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia

⁶ Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

⁷ Westmead Applied Research Centre, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia

⁸ see Authors' Contributions, Sydney, Australia

*these authors contributed equally