Articles tagged "Economics"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Costs In Contemporary Transplant Practice
M. Wyld, T. Ying, K. Wyburn, S. Chadban
Renal Department, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia
*Purpose: The cost of kidney transplantation, in the context of increasing immunological and medical complexity and higher donor and recipient age, remains uncertain. In 2009,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Clinical & Economic Impact Of Allosensitization In Liver Alone And Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation
M. Askar¹, G. Saracino¹, A. Elsabbagh², J. Fung³, T. Srinivas⁴, S. Flechner⁵, J. Trotter¹, G. Testa¹, B. Kaplan⁶, G. Klintmalm¹, J. Schold⁵, S. Asrani¹
¹Transplant Center, Baylor Scott & White, Dallas, TX, ²St. Vincent Health, Indianapolis, IN, ³University of Chicago Medicine, Chigao, IL, ⁴Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁶Transplant Center, Baylor Scott & White, Temple, TX
*Purpose: Allosensitization is thought to have marginal impact among patients that undergo liver transplantation (LTA); further among simultaneous liver kidney transplantation (SLKT), livers may protect…
2019 American Transplant Congress
How Much Does Graft Function Cost Us? A Financial Analysis of Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Yaldo, I. Bajjoka, C. Crombez, M. Abouljoud
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients (KTR) who receive dialysis post-transplant experience worse outcomes during the first year post-transplant. Whether KTR discharged with elevated levels of serum…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Transplant Hospital Organ Procurement on Medicare Cost Report Reimbursement
E. Y. Zavala¹, J. Rogers²
¹Transplant Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Transplant Management Group, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: Medicare organ acquisition reimbursement from the Medicare Cost Report includes costs associated with transplant hospitals acquiring an organ for Medicare transplant patients and the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Renal Replacement Therapy Strategies in Haiti
J. S. Pyda¹, L. James², J. J. Kim², K. Khwaja¹, M. Shrime³
¹Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ³Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation (KT) is the optimal renal replacement therapy (RRT) for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in high-income countries (HICs) conferring the highest…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Global Kidney Exchange
D. N. Bozek¹, O. Ekwenna¹, S. Paloyo², T. Dunn³, K. Krawiec⁴, S. Rees⁵, A. Roth⁶, M. Zimmerman⁷, J. Punch⁸, R. Forbes⁹, C. Marsh¹⁰, C. Kuhr¹¹, J. Rogers¹², M. Tan¹³, L. Basagoitia¹⁴, R. Correa-Rotter¹⁵, J. Ortiz¹, P. Sindhwani¹, M. A. Rees¹
¹University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH, ²University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital; St. Luke’s Medical Center, Manila, Philippines, ³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁵Alliance for Paired Donation, Perrysburg, OH, ⁶Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁷Froedert Hospital-Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁸University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ¹⁰Scripps Green Hospital, San Diego, CA, ¹¹Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, ¹²Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ¹³Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁴ProRenal, ., Mexico, ¹⁵INNSZ, Mexico City, Mexico
*Purpose: Poverty prevents more kidney transplants (KTs) worldwide than any other barrier. Global kidney Exchange (GKE) is a mechanism to overcome this barrier.*Methods: In high-income…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Financial Analysis of Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Yaldo, I. Bajjoka, C. Crombez, M. Abouljoud
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: To compare and evaluate outcomes of for younger (Y) versus elderly (E) kidney transplant recipients (KTR) during the first year post-transplant. As the number…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Optimal Timing of Hepatitis C Treatment among HIV/HCV Co-Infected End-Stage Renal Disease Patients: Pre vs. Post-Transplant
B. Shelton¹, G. Berdahl¹, D. Sawinski², B. Linas³, P. Reese², M. Mustian¹, R. Reed¹, P. MacLennan¹, J. Locke¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ³Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
*Purpose: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients co-infected with HCV and HIV have access to effective treatment options for HCV infection. However, they also have access…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Do Reimbursement Programs Increase The Number Of Living Organ Donations?
A. Siddique¹, J. Ortiz², S. Fry-Revere², V. Apte², Y. Jin³, N. Koizumi¹
¹Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, ²University of Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH, ³The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
*Purpose: Living-donor kidney transplantation is the gold standard treatment for the end-stage renal disease. However, living donors worldwide face significant financial and logistic barriers. To…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Income-Based Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation in the Context of a Nationally-Financed Health System in Brazil
A. Saha¹, G. Ferreira², Y. Yu¹, M. Waldram¹, V. Colares², J. Bastos², M. Henderson¹, D. Segev¹, A. Massie¹
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Santa Casa de Misericordia de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
*Purpose: Changes in economic and social factors in low- and middle-income countries have led to rising burden of chronic disease. Brazil, a middle-income country with…

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