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  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Risk Factors for Hospitalization Among Waitlisted End Stage Renal Disease Patients.

    K. Newman,1,2 A. Adams,2 S. Pastan,2 R. Lynch,2 R. Zhang,1 R. Patzer.1,2

    1Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; 2Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.

    Background: For End Stage Renal Disease Patients (ESRD) waitlisted for a deceased donor kidney, hospitalization is associated with lower likelihood of transplantation and worse outcomes.…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Big Data Predictive Solution to Optimize Kidney Transplant Outcome and Resource Utilization.

    T. Srinivas, D. Northrup, P. Mauldin, D. Taber, Z. Su, J. Zhang, M. Daniels, W. Moran.

    MUSC, Charleston.

    Objective: Transplant (Tx) programs often use data in reaction to regulation vs. optimizing outcomes through data driven clinical care. Tx specific issues can detract from…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    A Kidney Paired Donation Standard Acquisition Charge Pilot Program.

    M. Rees,1 L. Reece,2 S. Rees,2 B. Crandall,2 A. Leichtman.4

    1UT, Toledo; 2APKD, Perrysburg; 3Arbor Res, Ann Arbor.

    Background/Purpose: A national non-profit Kidney Paired Dontion (KPD) organization undertook a demonstration project to redesign payment for KPD transplants with a payment model similar to…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Rurality Status Does Not Affect Kidney Transplant (KTP) Rates Among Veterans Compared to Medicare, Medicaid, and Private Insurance (PrivIns) Beneficiaries.

    R. Kalil,1,2 C. Franciscus,2 A. O'Shea.1,2

    1Internal Medicine/Nephrology, University of Iowa, Iowa City; 2Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City VAMC, Iowa City.

    Background: A larger proportion of Veterans live in rural areas compared to non-Veterans. It is unknown whether rural status affects KTP rates among Veterans.Methods: Study…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Economic Impact of Nonimmune Complications in Contemporary Kidney Transplantation

    K. Lentine,1 M. Schnitzler,1 D. Axelrod,2 D. Segev,3 D. Brennan,4 J. Tuttle-Newhall,1 H. Xiao,1 L. Kucirka,3 V. Dharnidharka.4

    1Saint Louis Univ, St Louis; 2Dartmouth, Lebanon; 3Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; 4Washington Univ, St. Louis.

    The clinical burden and economic impacts of nonimmune complications after kidney transplant (KT) are incompletely defined.We examined United States Renal System Registry Data for Medicare-insured…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Gender Disparity in Infections After Kidney Transplantation

    S. Bae, L. Kucirka, C. Durand, B. Orandi, R. Avery, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.

    BACKGROUND: Female gender has been suggested as a risk factor for infection after kidney transplant (KT). Preliminary studies have reported that sex hormones such as…
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