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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Health Utilities in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
Pediatrics, Northwestern U, Chicago.
Health Utilities (HU) are preference based measures of health states required for cost effectiveness studies. We measured HU and health related quality of life (HRQOL)…2015 American Transplant Congress
Successful Consolidation of Two Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Programs
Renal & Pancreas Transplant, Barnabas Health, Livingston.
The decision to consolidate two kidney/pancreas transplant programs within the same healthcare system and within a 10 mile radius, was a pro-active approach in an…2015 American Transplant Congress
Industry Payments to Transplant Surgeons
The Open Payments Program (OPP) was implemented to publicly disclose industry payments to physicians, enabling patients to be aware of potential conflicts of interest. Outcomes…2015 American Transplant Congress
Preferences for Policy Options for Deceased Organ Donation for Transplantation: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Background: Despite broad public support for organ donation, there is a chronic shortage of deceased donor organs. We sought to identify features of an organ…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…
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