2015 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Medicare Part D Among Transplant Recipients
University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Memphis, TN.
Purpose: As cost is a critical barrier to medication access among transplant recipients, Medicare Part D represents a key strategy in medication acquisition. Due to…2015 American Transplant Congress
Does DSA Market Competition Influence OPO Performance?
INTRODUCTION: Increased market competition within a Donor Service Area (DSA) is associated with a greater number of liver and kidney transplants, but its effect on…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Economic Impact of Nonimmune Complications in Contemporary Kidney Transplantation
The clinical burden and economic impacts of nonimmune complications after kidney transplant (KT) are incompletely defined.We examined United States Renal System Registry Data for Medicare-insured…2015 American Transplant Congress
An Economic Analysis of Tolerance Induction for Two-Haplotype Match Kidney Living Donor Transplant Recipients
1Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; 2Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Purpose:Tolerance induction is a novel therapy that enables some living donor kidney transplant recipients (LDKTR) to safely discontinue immunosuppressive (IS) therapy. We examine whether tolerance…2015 American Transplant Congress
Association of De Novo Antibody-Mediated Rejection and Increased Hospital Costs Following Kidney Transplant in Immunologically Low-Risk Patients
While antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is likely the primary cause of kidney transplant (KTx) failure, and its treatment can be considered expensive, incremental center costs for…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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Financial Impact of an Advanced Liver Disease Service on a Tertiary Health System
Regional disparities in liver transplantation motivated revision of national organ-sharing policies towards critically ill patients. Liver transplantation of high MELD patients incorporates significant institutional commitment…2015 American Transplant Congress
Modeling the Clinical and Cost-Effectiveness of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography With Confirmatory Coronary Angiography for the Diagnosis of Pediatric Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy
The Cardiac Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
Purpose: Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is a leading cause of long-term mortality after pediatric heart transplantation. The gold standard of diagnosis is coronary angiography, an…2015 American Transplant Congress
Socioeconomic Factors and Early Hospital Readmission After Kidney Transplant at a Single Center
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore.
Early hospital readmission (EHR) is a key negative outcome in kidney transplantation (KT). Socioeconomic (SE) factors are associated with EHR in other contexts, but have…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Discrete Choice Experiment to Explore Patients' Preferences for Kidney Transplant Monitoring by Video-Conferencing
INTRODUCTIONAn experiment to assess the clinical outcomes and the economic efficiency of a videoconferencing system for the renal transplant patient's monitoring is currently under way…
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