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Articles tagged "Economics"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Variation in Cost of Death and Graft Failure across All Solid Organs

    M. Schnitzler,1,2 M. Skeans,2 D. Axelrod,3 K. Lentine,1 H. Randall.1

    1St. Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO; 2SRTR, Minneapolis, MN; 3Lahey Hosp & Med Ctr, Burlington, VT.

    Medicare costs for transplant vary considerably by organ, and costs in the second posttransplant year (Y2) are lower than in the first (Y1). Variability in…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Overcoming Barriers to Transplant: An A2 to B Program Need Not Be Difficult, Expensive, or Time Consuming Even for Large Centers

    S. Radomski, B. Diedrich, D. Li, M. Awwad, S. Rosen-Bronson, A. Langeberg, A-.A. Hamby, M. Cooper, A. Gilbert.

    Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.

    Introduction. Since the implementation of the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) few centers have implemented the use of A2 donor kidneys into B recipients. Centers…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Potential Barriers Hindering Non-Directed (Altruistic) Living Kidney Donors from Donating Their Kidneys.

    A. Maghen,1 L. Kwan,1 G. Vargas,1 S. Connor,1 S. Nassiri,1 E. Hicks,2 S. Maliski,3 J. Veale.

    1Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 2Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR; 3University of Kansas Medical Center School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS

    A. While non-directed kidney donation in the United States is a growing concept that demonstrates the next level of altruism in the U.S., there are…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Strategies to Economize Dialysis and Transplantation in Low Resource Settings.

    S. Rizvi, M. Zafar, T. Aziz, A. Hasan, R. Mohsin, A. Hashmi, Z. Hussain, F. Akhtar, E. Ahmed, A. Naqvi.

    Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan

    Background: Pakistan in an emerging economy where 50% of the population live below the poverty line on <$2 a day. The government spend 1.3% of…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Pathway for Living Donor Nephrectomy Patients Decreases Length of Stay and Narcotic Utilization.

    R. Forbes,1 A. King,2 T. McGrane,2 D. Hale,1 W. Sandberg,2 J. Wanderer,2 M. McEvoy.2

    1Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; 2Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

    Introduction:Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols reduce morbidity, hospital costs, and length of hospital stay although there have been few studies in living donor nephrectomy…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Screening and Referral of High Risk Liver Transplant Recipients to a Transitional Care Coordination (TCC) Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions.

    A. Masoumi,1 J. Krzyzewski,1 T. Stern,1 N. Schluterman,2 D. Bruno,2 J. Bromberg,2 R. Barth,2 S. Hanish.2

    1University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; 2University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    Introduction One-fifth of Medicare patients are readmitted to the hospital. The readmission rate among liver transplant recipients at a large tertiary academic medical center in…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    The Incremental of Cost of Incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplant: A National Cohort Analysis.

    D. Axelrod,1 K. Lentine,2 M. Schnitzler,2 H. Xiao,2 X. Lou,3 B. Orandi,3 J. Garonzik Wang,3 A. Massie,3 D. Segev.3

    1Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; 2Transplant, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; 3Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

    Incompatible living donor kidney transplant (ILDKT) has been established as an effective option for patients with willing but human leukocyte antigen incompatible live donors, reducing…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Transplant Economics Post Implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Budget Control Act Sequestration Adjustment on Medicare Reimbursement.

    E. Zavala,1 J. Rogers,2 R. Howey,3 S. Karp.1

    1VUMC, Nashville; 2Tx Mgmt Group, San Diego; 3Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville

    Purpose: Adjustments in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 and sequestration from the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011 have impacted Medicare reimbursement for…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Waitlist Management: The Readiness Model of Predicting Transplants Under the Kidney Allocation System.

    N. Elias, B. Kimball, L. Walsh, D. Wojciechowski, J. Markmann, E. Heher.

    Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

    Based on the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data, between 2001 and 2016 the national kidney wait-list has grown from 51,271 to 100,791 (97%). At…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Increasing Organ Supply in the US: A Systematic Review of Presumed Consent vs. Informed Consent (2006-2016).

    M. Ahmad,1 A. Hanna,1 A. Mohamed,1,2 R. Mhaskar,1 T. Jarmi,1,3 A. Schlindwein,4 C. Pley,4 I. Bahner.1

    1University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL; 2Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, FL; 3Transplant & Specialty Services, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; 4University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    Purpose: Literature was systematically reviewed from 2006 to 2016 to assess the effectiveness of presumed consent vs. informed consent on increasing the deceased donor organ…
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