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Articles tagged "Ethics"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Team Decision-Making in Liver Transplant Evaluation: A Multi-Center Ethnographic Observation Study

    C. N. Sidoti, H. C. Sung, D. L. Segev, M. L. Levan, T. S. Purnell, A. T. Strauss

    Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Transplant providers are tasked with making ethically complex and high-stakes decisions of determining a patient’s candidacy for liver transplantation within a multi-disciplinary team. We…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Healthcare Worker Attitudes On Living Donations Prior To Withdrawal Of Care

    C. Luo1, S. Rath1, L. Washburn2, M. B. Price1, P. Moolchandani1, M. Goss3, A. Rana1, J. Goss1, N. Galvan1

    1Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 3McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: This study aims to assess the attitudes of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in transplant and critical care towards Living Donation Prior to…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Adding Epitope Compatibility To Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation Criteria: Recommendations From An Online Public Deliberation

    L. Edwards1, R. Sapir-Pichhadze2, P. Keown3, S. Bryan1

    1School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 3Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    *Purpose: With increasing demand for kidneys and a scarce supply, ways to reduce rejection and improve transplant outcomes are needed. One possibility is using epitope…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Having Potential Living Donors on Patients’ Access to Kidney Transplantation

    E. J. Gordon1, J. Lee1, R. Kang1, J. Caicedo2

    1Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Racial/ethnic disparities persist in patients’ access to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT). Little is known about the relationship between number of potential living donors…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Moral Distress Among Palliative Care and Transplant Clinicians in the Context of Transplant Care

    K. Ladin1, E. Park2, J. Perugini2, K. Aufort2, T. Porteny2

    1Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2REACH Lab, Tufts University, Medford, MA

    *Purpose: Despite benefits of palliative care referrals and early advance care planning for patients with end-stage organ disease and recipients experiencing graft failure, few patients…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Barriers to Completing the Transplant Evaluation Process: A Mixed-Methods Study

    E. J. Gordon1, J. J. Uriarte1, A. N. McLagan1, B. Kuramitsu1, J. Gacki-Smith1, M. Shumate2, L. McElroy3, J. Caicedo1

    1Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 3Duke University, Durham, NC

    *Purpose: Little is known about patient-reported factors affecting patients’ access to the kidney transplant waitlist after starting evaluation. We qualitatively assessed patients’ perceived barriers to…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Cognitive Bias in Transplant Surgery: A Qualitative Study of Transplant Clinicians in the United States

    K. Ladin1, J. Perry2, C. Eiduson3

    1REACH Lab, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 3University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, NY

    *Purpose: Clinicians’ judgments about patients’ social support often affect whether patients are listed for transplantation. Decision-making is thought to be based on two systems of…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Development of a Culturally Sensitive Chatbot to Inform Living Donor Candidates of African Ancestry About Apol1 Genetic Testing

    E. J. Gordon1, P. Waite2, J. Gacki-Smith2, D. Duquette3, A. Agrawal1, J. Friedewald1, S. Savage4, E. Simmons5, M. Cooper6, A. Gilbert6, C. Wicklund7

    1Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 3Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 4Invitae, Inc, San Francisco, CA, 5Invitae, San Francisco, CA, 6Surgery, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, DC, 7Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Living kidney donor candidates of African ancestry are increasingly asked to undergo Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) genetic testing to better understand their risk of kidney…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Patient Definitions of Transplant Success of Upper Extremity VCA

    M. Downey1, B. Kuramitsu2, J. Gacki-Smith2, K. Vanterpool1, M. Luken3, M. Nordstrom3, T. Riggleman3, C. Cooney1, M. Levan1, S. Tintle3, G. Brandacher1, S. Jensen2, G. Dumanian2, E. Gordon2

    1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 3Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

    *Purpose: Little is known about how to measure "success" of upper extremity (UE) vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) given its relative novelty and low frequency. While…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Consent to Organ Offers from Public Health Service Increased Risk Donors Decreases Time to Transplant and Waitlist Mortality

    Y. Kelly, A. Zarinsefat, M. Tavakol, A. Shui, C. Huang, J. P. Roberts

    University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: The Public Health Service Increased Risk designation identified organ donors at increased risk of transmitting hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus. Despite…
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