Articles tagged "Economics"

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…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Marginal Allografts in Liver Transplantation Have Very Limited Impact on Length of Stay
C. Goff¹, T. Zhang¹, M. McDonald¹, A. Anand¹, N. Galvan², F. Kanwal³, G. Cholankeril², R. Hernaez³, J. A. Goss⁴, A. Rana²
¹Department of Student Affairs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Michael E DeBakey Department of General Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ³Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ⁴Liver Center, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Department of General Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect on recipient length of hospital stay following transplantation with marginal allografts as specified by…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Lung Transplantation After Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion versus Static Cold Storage: A Single Institution Cost Analysis
S. E. Halpern¹, S. J. Kesseli², S. Au¹, M. K. Krischak¹, D. G. Olaso¹, H. Smith³, G. Tipton², I. Jamieson³, J. C. Haney², J. A. Klapper², M. G. Hartwig²
¹Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ²Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ³Office of Finance, Duke Transplant Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) allows for reconditioning of “marginal” lung grafts and extended lung preservation. However, EVLP is costlier than cold storage. We compared…
2021 American Transplant Congress
How Long is the Wait Worthwhile: Cost-Effectiveness of Accepting a Kidney from a Donor with Apolipoprotein L1 High-Risk Genotype
K. Lentine¹, D. Brennan², M. Wang³, M. Schnitzler⁴, H. Xiao⁴, D. Axelrod⁵, J. Snyder⁶, K. Lentine⁴
¹Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ³Washington Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ⁴Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ⁵Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁶SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) Long-Term Outcomes (APOLLO) study is underway to define the impact of kidney donor renal risk variants (RRVs) on the survival…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Solid Organ Transplant Telehealth Utilization Significantly Increased During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Experience at a Single, Large Volume Center
R. Forbes, K. Kumm, H. O'Dell, K. Smith, L. Smith, A. Dreher, H. Schaefer, B. Concepcion
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth utilization has allowed for the delivery of healthcare while protecting patients, caregivers, healthcare workers, and the community from exposure.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Economic and Clinical Benefit of Cmv Matching in Kidney Transplantation
D. Axelrod¹, S. Chang², A. Olyaei³, D. Malinoski³, D. Norman³, K. Lentine⁴, M. Schnitzler⁴, D. Segev⁵, J. Lockridge³
¹Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²Washington Univ, Seattle, WA, ³Oregon Health Sciences Univ, Portland, OR, ⁴Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ⁵Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Recently, kidney transplant (KTx) centers in Oregon collaborated to preferentially allocate cytomegalovirus-seronegative (CMV D-) kidneys to seronegative recipients (CMV R-), successfully reducing high-risk CMV…