Articles tagged "Economics"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Global Kidney Exchange
D. N. Bozek¹, O. Ekwenna¹, S. Paloyo², T. Dunn³, K. Krawiec⁴, S. Rees⁵, A. Roth⁶, M. Zimmerman⁷, J. Punch⁸, R. Forbes⁹, C. Marsh¹⁰, C. Kuhr¹¹, J. Rogers¹², M. Tan¹³, L. Basagoitia¹⁴, R. Correa-Rotter¹⁵, J. Ortiz¹, P. Sindhwani¹, M. A. Rees¹
¹University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH, ²University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital; St. Luke’s Medical Center, Manila, Philippines, ³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁵Alliance for Paired Donation, Perrysburg, OH, ⁶Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁷Froedert Hospital-Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁸University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ¹⁰Scripps Green Hospital, San Diego, CA, ¹¹Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, ¹²Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ¹³Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁴ProRenal, ., Mexico, ¹⁵INNSZ, Mexico City, Mexico
*Purpose: Poverty prevents more kidney transplants (KTs) worldwide than any other barrier. Global kidney Exchange (GKE) is a mechanism to overcome this barrier.*Methods: In high-income…
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A Financial Analysis of Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Yaldo, I. Bajjoka, C. Crombez, M. Abouljoud
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: To compare and evaluate outcomes of for younger (Y) versus elderly (E) kidney transplant recipients (KTR) during the first year post-transplant. As the number…
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Optimal Timing of Hepatitis C Treatment among HIV/HCV Co-Infected End-Stage Renal Disease Patients: Pre vs. Post-Transplant
B. Shelton¹, G. Berdahl¹, D. Sawinski², B. Linas³, P. Reese², M. Mustian¹, R. Reed¹, P. MacLennan¹, J. Locke¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ³Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
*Purpose: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients co-infected with HCV and HIV have access to effective treatment options for HCV infection. However, they also have access…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Do Reimbursement Programs Increase The Number Of Living Organ Donations?
A. Siddique¹, J. Ortiz², S. Fry-Revere², V. Apte², Y. Jin³, N. Koizumi¹
¹Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, ²University of Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH, ³The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
*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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Racial and Income-Based Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation in the Context of a Nationally-Financed Health System in Brazil
A. Saha¹, G. Ferreira², Y. Yu¹, M. Waldram¹, V. Colares², J. Bastos², M. Henderson¹, D. Segev¹, A. Massie¹
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Santa Casa de Misericordia de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
*Purpose: Changes in economic and social factors in low- and middle-income countries have led to rising burden of chronic disease. Brazil, a middle-income country with…
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Lower Alcohol Taxes Are Associated with Increased Liver Transplant Listing
N. T. Shen¹, M. Raver¹, N. Hutchison¹, A. Jesudian¹, J. Bray², B. Schackman³, R. S. Brown¹
¹Medicine; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell, New York, NY, ²Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, Greensboro, NC, ³Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a leading indication for liver transplantation worldwide with rising prevalence. Whether relationships exist between transplant listing for ALD and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
simplifyKDPI: An Animated Video to Educate Kidney Transplant Candidates about the Kidney Donor Profile Index
K. Bonner, R. Seibert, L. Kayler
SUNY Buffalo/ECMC, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: simplifyKDPI is an iteratively-designed patient-engaged mobile educational animated video program developed with guidance from patients, providers and Self-efficacy and Multimedia Learning Theories to increase…
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Organ Procurement Organization Performance is Not Related to Educational Spending
J. P. Roberts¹, J. Bragg-Gresham², P. Held³
¹Univ of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: We examined the educational spending by OPOs in relationship to OPO performance metrics.*Methods: Data sources: OPO Cost Reports (CMS 216-94 Form), SRTR OPO Specific…
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Identifying a Clinically Relevant Cut-Off for Height That is Associated with a Higher Risk of Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates
J. Ge, J. C. Lai
University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: We have previously demonstrated that candidate height explains a substantial proportion of sex-based disparity in waitlist (WL) mortality among liver transplant (LT) candidates. To…
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Oral Ribavirin Therapy for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in Lung Transplant Recipients: The Impact of Policy Implementation on Cost and Appropriate Use
B. Berak, N. Sulejmani, A. Jantz, T. Larson, S. Davis, B. Summers
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: RSV is a leading cause of viral infections in lung transplant recipients and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. While the role of…