2016 American Transplant Congress
Cost-Effectiveness of Machine Perfusion Use After Long Cold Ischemic Time in a Kidney Transplantation Program.
Renal Transplantation Unit, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
In Brazil the incidence of DGF is very high (60-70%) mainly due to an inadequate care of the donors and long cold ischemia time. This…2016 American Transplant Congress
Global Kidney Exchange.
Introduction: Instead of thinking of the developing world as a place where there are desperate people who will sell their kidneys for money, we propose…2016 American Transplant Congress
Economic Analysis of Survival for Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplant in a Philanthropic Hospital of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Brazil has one of the most important public programs of transplant in the world. Our hospital is a private philanthropic that has already performed more…2016 American Transplant Congress
Personal Relationships and Financial Outcomes in Living Liver Donors.
Background:Little is known about living liver donation's impact on donor personal relationships and financial outcomes. We examined these areas in a prospective 9-center liver donor…2016 American Transplant Congress
Delays in the Live Kidney Donor Evaluation Process.
One of the barriers to live kidney donation (LKD) is successful completion of the evaluation process. While it is known that many potential donors (PDs)…2016 American Transplant Congress
Neighborhood Poverty and Gender Disparities in Access to Live Donor Kidney Transplantation.
Women are less likely to receive a live donor kidney transplant (LDKT) than men, but little is known about the contribution of poverty to this…2016 American Transplant Congress
Big Data Predictive Solution to Optimize Kidney Transplant Outcome and Resource Utilization.
Objective: Transplant (Tx) programs often use data in reaction to regulation vs. optimizing outcomes through data driven clinical care. Tx specific issues can detract from…2016 American Transplant Congress
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics Influence Access to Kidney Transplantation Independently of Individual Socioeconomic Status.
Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
INTRODUCTION: Ensuring fair and equitable access to kidney transplantation (ATT) is of paramount importance. Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with worse access to healthcare. Understanding the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Waitlist Management with Lean Six Sigma.
BackgroundLean thinking is a bundle of concepts, methods and tools for organizing human activities in organizations. It attempts to eliminate the underlying unnecessary waste in…2015 American Transplant Congress
Factors Influencing Cost Among Kidney, Liver, and Heart Transplant Patients in a Private Payer Setting
1Optum, Minneapolis; 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
The factors influencing cost in solid organ transplantation have been evaluated by many individual centers, as well as nationally for Medicare patients. However, the majority…
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