2017 American Transplant Congress
Perceived Legitimacy of Using Social Support for Transplant Eligibility: Results from a National Survey of Transplant Clinicians.
Background: Although the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services require that social support be used to determine transplant eligibility, guidance is vague. Centers vary significantly…2017 American Transplant Congress
Potential Living Kidney Donors (LKD) Concerns About Opting Out and Preferences for an 'Alibi'.
1Yale U, New Haven; 2Northwestern U, Chicago; 3U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia
PurposeTo evaluate potential LKDs comfort discussing opting out with their intended recipient (IR) and preferences for alibisMethodsWe conducted a prospective, longitudinal study of potential LKDs…2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Preferences: A Novel Use of a Visual Instrument to Quantify ESRD Risk Acceptance.
1Yale U, New Haven; 2U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia; 3Northwestern U, Chicago.
BackgroundGiven new data about the estimated lifetime risk of ESRD among living kidney donors (LKD) (Muzaale 2014), we elicited their willingness to accept the risk…2016 American Transplant Congress
End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients' Willingness to Accept Risks to Living Kidney Donors.
Background: While many potential living kidney donors (LKDs) are willing to accept high levels of ESRD risk, receipt of a living donor kidney is also…2016 American Transplant Congress
Compensating Live Kidney Donors: The Views of United States Voters.
Purpose: An increasing number of U.S. patients die waiting for a kidney transplant. Financial compensation of living donors is one possible remedy for the organ…2016 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy of Nine National Policies Reimbursing and Incentivizing Live Organ Donation.
American Living Organ Donor Network, Lovettsville, VA.
Background: Organ shortage is a massive global issue, and the high costs of living organ donation only exacerbate the problem. In order to encourage citizens…2016 American Transplant Congress
What Living Organ Donors See as Their Unmet Needs in the United States.
Study PurposeTo collect data on what living organ donors themselves say they want and need to make living organ donation safer and easier.MethodFor 12 months,…2016 American Transplant Congress
Here Comes the Sun: Industry's Payments to Transplant Physicians.
Background: The Open Payments Program (OPP) was implemented to publicly disclose industry payments to physicians, enabling patients to be aware of conflicts of interests. We…2016 American Transplant Congress
Who Should Decide? Potential Living Kidney Donor Preferences for Making Decisions About Risk.
1Yale U, New Haven; 2Northwestern U, Chicago; 3U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia.
BackgroundTransplant centers debate how to manage risks to potential living kidney donors (LKDs) when there is a lack of consensus about reasonable donor risk .We…2016 American Transplant Congress
Reciprocity for Compatible Pair Participation in Kidney Paired Donation.
Participation of ABO and HLA compatible pairs (CPs) in kidney paired donation (KPD) could significantly increase living donor (LD) transplantation (TX). CPs may be more…
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