Articles tagged "Methodology"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Process Deviation Tracking and Analysis in an Organ Procurement Organization
B. Schleich,¹ S. Yoon,¹ M. Khasawneh,¹ K. Srihari,¹ H. Irving,² A. Friedman.
¹Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY; ²New York Organ Donor Network, New York, NY.
"It is common practice for Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) to report, collect and track issues and problems occurring during the organ donation process. We labeled…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Educating Hispanic ESRD Patients About Living Donation: Impact of a Brief Intervention
E. Alvaro, J. Siegel, J. Poulsen, E. O'Brien.
Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA; Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA; Transplantation, St. Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
Purpose: This study was designed to enhance Hispanic ESRD patient knowledge, norm perceptions, and efficacy regarding discussions of living kidney donation.Methods: The study was a…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Validation of Predictive Nomograms for Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients
L. Chau, O. Famure, J. Kim.
Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Background: Delayed graft function (DGF), defined by the need for dialysis within 7 days after transplantation, impacts short and long term graft outcomes. Predictive nomograms…
2015 American Transplant Congress
How Long Is Too Long? The Impact of Bridge Donor Waiting Time on Paired Donation Transplants
D. Fumo,^1,2 T. Suttle,¹ R. Flynn,¹ S. Stepkowski,¹ L. Reece,² J. Kopke,² M. Rees.^1,2
¹University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH; ²Alliance for Paired Donation, Maumee, OH.
Non-simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor (NEAD) chains and bridge donors (BD) are increasingly utilized in the field of Kidney Paired Donation (KPD), but remain controversial due…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Learning from Failures: A 7-Year Analysis of a Multi-Institutional Kidney Paired Donation Registry
D. Fumo,^1,2 V. Kapoor,¹ L. Reece,² S. Rees,² J. Kopke,² S. Stepkowski,¹ C. Smith,^1,2 M. Rees.^1,2
¹University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH; ²Alliance for Paired Donation, Maumee, OH.
Failure to convert computer-identified possible Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) exchanges into transplants has prevented KPD from reaching its full potential. The purpose of this study…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Mouse Model of Pneumonitis Induced by Candida Albicans Infection After Allogeneic Skin Transplantation
A. Yang, Z. Guo, W. Ju, Y. Ma, A. Hu, Y. Chen, M. Chen, C. Wu, X. He.
Organ Transplantation Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Aims:Our study was to build up a mouse model of pneumonitis induced by candida albicans infection after allogeneic skin transplantation.Methods:We used 10 male C57BL/6J mice…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Program-Effect Attenuation With Time Posttransplant
N. Salkowski,¹ L. Hunsicker,^1,2 J. Snyder,¹ B. Kasiske.^1,3
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN; ²Department of Medicine, University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; ³Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
The program-specific reports produced by SRTR include 1-month, 1-year, and 3-year posttransplant graft and patient survival measures. The 1-month and 1-year measures use the same…