Articles tagged "Economics"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Area Deprivation Index is Associated with Worse Patient Survival Following Adult Liver Transplantation
J. Hendele¹, J. Perkins², J. Nichols³, A. Dick¹
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Clinical and Bio-Analytics Transplant Laboratory (CBATL), University of Washington, Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Seattle, WA, ³School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Area Deprivation Index (ADI) has been utilized as a granular measure of local socioeconomic status for nearly two decades. This study is the first…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Organ Donation at a Centralized Donation Facility Compared to Donation at Referral Hospitals
A. M. Hawxby¹, R. Ketcham², J. E. Leader¹, D. Burch², M. Benoit², R. A. Squires², C. Hostetler², J. P. Orlowski²
¹Organ Recovery, LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, ²LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: An emerging model of donor management includes utilization of a Specialized Donor Care Facility (SDCF) - essentially a stand-alone OPO-based procurement facility in which…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Intersection of Cost, Quality, and Volume in Liver Transplant
D. Axelrod¹, R. Balakrishnan¹, A. Harris², S. Hohmann², J. Snyder³, B. Kasiske³, M. Schnitzler⁴, K. Lentine⁴
¹Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²Vizient Inc., Irving, TX, ³SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO
*Purpose: As a consequence of changing allocation practices and the ongoing shortage of high-quality organs, the cost of liver transplant (LT) continues to increase throughout…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Value of a Personal Systems Approach in Improving Medication Adherence in Adult Kidney Transplant Patients: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis of the MAGIC Randomized Clinical Trial
M. R. Wakefield¹, M. Whittington², C. Ashbaugh³, L. M. Remy⁴, D. Aholt⁴, C. Miller⁴, D. Hathaway⁵, D. Clark⁵, K. Goggin⁵, R. J. Ellis⁶, C. L. Russell⁴
¹Surgery/Urology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, ²University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, ³University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia, MO, ⁴University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, ⁵Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, ⁶Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: The objective of this evaluation was to estimate the cost of implementation and the cost-effectiveness of a person-level intervention called SystemCHANGETM .*Methods: To estimate…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Novel Coronavirus 2019 in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Yet Again, Race and Payor Status Matters
C. Huang¹, M. Hemmersbach-Miller¹, M. Goss², N. Moreno³, A. Rana¹, J. Goss¹, N. Galvan¹
¹General Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²General Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ³General Surgery, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
*Purpose: By the early spring of 2020, the United States has become the global epicenter of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Little is known if…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Medical Costs in the Year Following Kidney Transplantation: Relationships with Renal Function and Graft Failure
M. Cooper¹, M. A. Schnitzler², C. Nilubol¹, W. Wang³, X. Zhu³, J. Wu³, R. J. Nordyke⁴
¹MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ³Genesis Research, Hoboken, NJ, ⁴Angion Biomedica, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: We describe relationships between total medical costs in the first year following kidney transplant with overall renal function as measured by: 1) estimated glomerular…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Payer’s Perspective: The Cost of Hemodialysis versus Living Donor Kidney Transplant for Kidney Failure Patients in Nigeria
J. Lang¹, I. James², D. Da Rocha Afodu¹, C. G. Okwuonu³, O. Ekwenna¹
¹University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, ²Surgical Specialists of Charlotte, Matthews, NC, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology Unit, Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria
*Purpose: To primarily quantify the costs of LDKT and HD in Nigeria from a ‘payer’s perspective’ and secondarily inform future cost-effectiveness studies to guide health…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Incremental Cost of Transplanting Patients with 100% cPRA Under the Kidney Allocation System: A Single Center Analysis
R. Gumber, E. Kraus, K. Jackson, N. Alachkar
Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Our group has described excellent three year patient and graft survival in patients with 100% cPRA undergoing kidney transplantation under the Kidney Allocation System…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Seasonal and Income-related Factors in Live Kidney Donation in the United States from 1995 to 2019
F. Al Ammary¹, A. Arking², G. Kaddu², J. Garonzik Wang², A. B. Massie², D. Segev², A. Muzaale²
¹Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: For nearly two decades, the annual number of US live kidney donors has been characterized by striking and worrying patterns of general decline that…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Dynamic Markov Model to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of the Kidney Team at Home Intervention in the Netherlands
S. Redeker¹, S. Ismail¹, H. van Eeren¹, E. K. Massey², W. Weimar², M. Oppe³, J. van Busschbach¹
¹Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³Axentiva Solutions S.L., Tacoronte, Spain
*Purpose: The Kidney Team at Home program is an educational intervention aimed at patients with chronic kidney disease to assist them in their choice for…