2019 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Kidney Discards with Donor Admission Text
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Kidney discard rates have increased in part due to technological advancements and deceased donor policy updates that allow for recovery of organs at increased…2019 American Transplant Congress
The C-Statistic Provides No Information on the Accuracy of Program Evaluations or the Presence of Unmeasured Confounders
*Purpose: The C-statistic of risk-adjustment models is regularly used to assess accuracy of program evaluations or determine presence of unmeasured confounding. However, the C-statistic depends…2019 American Transplant Congress
Patterns Of Anti-retroviral Use Among U.s. Liver Transplant Candidates With Hiv
*Purpose: There is a high burden of liver disease among HIV-infected (HIV+) individuals, and the class of antiretroviral therapy (ART) used for their treatment may…2019 American Transplant Congress
Opioid Use Policies and Practices in Liver Transplant and Lung Transplant Candidates: A Comparison of National Surveys
*Purpose: Pre-transplant opioid use has been associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Alternatively, opioid substitution therapy (OST) has been proven to be a…2019 American Transplant Congress
Unfair Waiting Time Calculation? Impact of Accumulated Wait Time Restart with a Decrease in Status from 1A to 1B or 2 on Mortality of Heart Transplant Candidates
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Between two heart transplant (HT) candidates listed at the same status, the candidate with longer accumulated wait time receives higher waitlist priority; under current…2019 American Transplant Congress
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Renal Replacement Therapy Strategies in Haiti
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation (KT) is the optimal renal replacement therapy (RRT) for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in high-income countries (HICs) conferring the highest…2019 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation and the Impact of Medicaid Expansion
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplant (LDKTx) is the preferred treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Medicaid Expansion increased insurance coverage and this influx of insured…2019 American Transplant Congress
Neighborhood Deprivation is Associated with Decreased Rates of Organ Donor Designation
*Purpose: Only half of adults in the United States are designated as organ donors on their state driver’s license or identification card. We leveraged data…2019 American Transplant Congress
Attitude towards Organ Donation among Medical Students: Relationship to Knowledge and Beliefs
Nephrology/Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of organ donation may underlie physician unwillingness to refer patients for organ donation. We examined baseline knowledge and beliefs…2019 American Transplant Congress
Do Reimbursement Programs Increase The Number Of Living Organ Donations?
*Purpose: Living-donor kidney transplantation is the gold standard treatment for the end-stage renal disease. However, living donors worldwide face significant financial and logistic barriers. To…
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