Articles tagged "Economics"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Resource Expenditure in the Evaluation of Older Donors for Heart Transplant: An Impediment to Donor Pool Expansion?
B. Wayda¹, J. G. Zaroff², N. Neidlinger³, P. Geraghty⁴, R. P. Wood⁵, J. Nieto⁵, T. C. Pearson⁶, B. Nicely⁷, K. K. Khush¹
¹Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ²Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, ³University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI, ⁴Donor Network of Arizona, Tempe, AZ, ⁵LifeGift, Houston, TX, ⁶Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ⁷Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Using older donors for heart transplant (HT) could alleviate donor scarcity but the resource implications of this strategy - and whether evaluation of older…
2022 American Transplant Congress
A Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Adherence Promotion Strategies to Improve Rejection Rates in Adolescent Kidney Transplant Patients
C. Varnell¹, K. Rich¹, A. Modi¹, D. Hooper¹, M. Eckman²
¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: In adolescents with a kidney transplant, non-adherence increases the risk of graft loss. Adherence promotion interventions improve adherence and rejection rates, but perceived cost…
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Financial Impact of a Culturally Sensitive Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program
J. Caicedo¹, A. Wang², A. Mathur³, R. Ruiz⁴, E. J. Gordon¹
¹Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Hispanic/Latinx patients receive disproportionately fewer living donor kidney transplants (LDKTs) than non-Hispanic Whites. [Institution name's] culturally targeted Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program (HKTP) was found…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Increased Survival Benefit Amongst Highest Priority Candidates Undergoing Heart Transplant Following the New Us Heart Allocation System
S. Tolmie¹, W. Parker²
¹Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: A key policy change in the new US heart allocation system was splitting the previous highest status (1A) into statuses 1, 2, and 3…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Financial Impact of Adult Kidney Transplant MS-DRGs 650, 651 and 652 in U.S. Transplant Hospitals
E. Zavala¹, J. Rogers², H. Buschmann¹, S. Rath¹, S. Karp¹
¹VUMC, Nashville, TN, ²Transplant Management Group, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: The Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) permits each inpatient admission to be categorized into a diagnosis-related group (DRG). DRGs can be further…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Financial Burden Of Transplant – A Commercial Claims Analysis
G. Katz-Greenberg¹, O. Osazuwa-Peters¹, J. Gonzalez¹, S. Sanoff¹, O. Oloruntoba¹, N. Chan¹, E. J. Gordon², C. Scales¹, A. Brookhart¹, L. McElroy¹
¹Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, OAK PARK, IL
*Purpose: Despite access to health insurance, financial concerns are among the most prevalent patient-reported barriers to kidney and liver transplantation (KT and LT, respectively). We…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Reducing Financial Burden for Living Donors: A Single Center Experience of Increased National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) Support
T. Klair, K. Throgmorton, D. Oviedo, E. Cepeda
Transplant Center, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) offers assistance to overcome some of the financial barriers associated with Living Donation. From 2015 to 2020, an…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Financial Barriers Experienced During the Transplant Process by Caregivers of Children with End Stage Kidney Disease
R. Goldfarb Terry¹, A. Edwards¹, U. Parlin², A. Chung¹, S. Amaral¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Known socioeconomic disparities in transplant referral and evaluation exist in adults with end-stage kidney disease, but little is known about the financial burden that…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Coordinated, Multimodal Care After Kidney Transplantation Improves Graft Survival and Cardiovascular Risks – Results of the Kidney Transplantation 360°- Study (ktx360°)
L. Pape¹, M. DeZwaan², V. Kliem³, H. Nolting⁴, J. Wolff⁴, U. Tegtbur⁵, M. Schiffer⁶
¹Pediatrics II, University Hospital of Essen, Essen, Germany, ²Pediatrics II, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ³Nephrologic Center Hannoversch Münden, Hannoversch Münden, Germany, ⁴IGES Insititue, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ⁶University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
*Purpose: Cardiovascular events and reduced graft survival due to non-adherence are the most important reasons for morbidity and mortality after KTx. Outpatient care in Germany…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Cost-Effectiveness of an Intra-Operative Renal Allograft Cooling Device
K. Hansen¹, C. Yock², J. Pietzsch²
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Stanford, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: Existing literature shows intra-operative cooling of a renal allograft during anastomosis reduces the incidence of delayed graft function in deceased donor kidney transplant recipients…