Articles tagged "Economics"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Industry Payments to Transplant Surgeons
R. Ahmed, E. Chow, A. Massie, E. King, B. Orandi, S. Bae, L. Nicholas, B. Lonze, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
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
K. Howard,¹ S. Jan,² J. Rose,³ G. Wong,^1,4 J. Craig,^1,4 M. Irving,¹ A. Tong,^1,4 S. Chadban,^1,5 R. Allen,⁵ A. Cass.⁶
¹The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ²The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia; ³Institute for Choice, University of South Australia, North Sydney, Australia; ⁴Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, Australia; ⁵Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia; ⁶Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia.
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
M. Chisholm-Burns, C. Spivey.
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…