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Articles tagged "Procurement"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Using Trajectory Analysis to Characterize Trends in OPO Performance with Population-Based Metrics

    K. Ross1, D. Goldberg2, R. Lynch1

    1Emory University, Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA, 2University of Miami, Miami, FL

    *Purpose: Identifying the organ procurement organizations (OPOs) with the greatest opportunity to improve donation rates may help increase the number of transplants in the United…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    An Evaluation of Deceased Donor Eligibility and US Organ Donation Rates

    L. DeRoos1, Y. Zhou2, W. Marrero1, M. Lavieri1, D. Hutton3, N. Parikh4

    1Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 3School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 4Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    *Purpose: Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) performance assessment is essential for identifying best practices and improvement opportunities. We aimed to evaluate OPO performance using the following…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Racial/Ethnic Differences in Deceased Organ Donor Rates Over Time in the United States

    A. Kernodle, W. Zhang, B. Doby, L. Liyanage, A. Massie, T. Purnell, D. Segev

    Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Historically, deceased organ donation rates have varied across racial/ethnic groups within the US. To address these differences, the transplant community has investigated select minority…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Process Matters: Factors in Refusing Solid Organ Donation by African Americans

    L. A. Siminoff1, G. P. Alolod1, H. M. Gardiner1, R. D. Hasz2, P. A. Mulvania2, M. Wilson-Genderson1

    1Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: With approximately 25 African Americans (AAs) dying weekly while awaiting a transplantable organ, this study compares the experiences of AA families who authorized donation…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    New and Unknown: VCA Acceptability to the General Public

    L. A. Siminoff, D. B. Sarwer, G. P. Alolod, E. Davis, H. McGregor, H. M. Gardiner

    Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Despite the promise of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) as a viable alternative to available reconstructive procedures or prosthetics, its future relies heavily on families’…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Survey on Solid Organ Pancreas Transplantation in the United States: Plenty of Insulin, Short on Procedures!

    R. F. Parsons1, T. Alhamad2, K. L. Lentine3, A. Basu1, K. J. Woodside4, G. Romeo5, C. Klein6, M. Pavlakis7, J. Friedewald8, D. Dadhania9, M. Cooper10

    1Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA, 2Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO, 3St. Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO, 4Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 5Harvard, Boston, MA, 6Piedmont, Atlanta, GA, 7BIDMC, Boston, MA, 8Northwestern, Chicago, IL, 9Weill Cornell Medical College – NYP, New York, NY, 10Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC

    *Purpose: For 15 years pancreas transplantation (PT) numbers have paradoxically declined. We sought to understand the drop in all types of PT and to find…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Influence of Nonclinical Factors on Adult Liver Organ Donor Offer Decision Making in the United States

    S. Meade, M. Simpson, B. J. Kane, C. J. Simon, Y. Cheah, R. L. Jenkins, M. E. Akoad

    Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA

    *Purpose: Liver donor graft discard rate remained at approximately 10% in the United States despite the critical organ shortage. We sought to understand practice patterns…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    A Follow-Up Over Time to the Impact of Reactive Anti-HCV and HCV NAT

    C. C. Muse, C. A. Hostetler, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski

    LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

    *Purpose: A previous review from one U.S. organ procurement organization (OPO) concluded positive HCV test results yielded high rates of authorized/not recovered donors (ANR), low…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Maximizing the Gift: One OPO’s Experience Maximizing the Gift of Organ Donation by Successfully Increasing the Number of Organs Transplanted from Non-Braindead Donors

    J. B. Nave, A. J. Boyer, C. A. Hostetler, C. C. Muse, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski

    LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

    *Purpose: In 2018 in the United States, donation after circulatory death (DCD) cases accounted for 20% of deceased organ donor recoveries1. Our organ procurement organization's…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Mobile Application for Communication Increases the Efficiency of Organ Procurement and Transplantation

    E. Pahl

    Health Informatics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    *Purpose: Donor organ recovery is a complex process involving organ procurement organizations and multiple surgical teams from various transplant centers. According to the Organ Preservation…
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