Articles tagged "Public policy"

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
Immunotherapy Before Solid Organ Transplantation: An International Transplant Community-Focused Survey
T. Ivanics¹, M. P. Claasen¹, D. Al-Adra², G. Sapisochin³
¹University of Toronto - University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ³Multi-organ transplant program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: The use of immunotherapy for cancer has increased and is expected to continue to grow. The outcomes after solid organ transplantation (SOT) in patients…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Increase in Exception and Extension Requests for Higher-Urgency Patients Under the New Heart Allocation Policy
J. R. Golbus¹, Y. Ahn², B. K. Nallamothu¹, M. N. Walsh³, D. Zaun², A. Israni², M. Colvin¹
¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ³Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center, Carmel, IN
*Purpose: In October 2018, a new heart allocation policy was introduced that expanded the number of listing statuses and established a national review board, abolishing…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Variation Exists in Hospital Policies for Donation After Circulatory Death Within a Single Donor Service Area
R. Shabbir¹, S. Chebrolu², E. Vines³, C. Trahan³, P. Niles³, G. Testa¹, A. Wall¹
¹Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Dallas, TX, ³Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: The Joint Commission mandates that all hospitals have a donation after circulatory death (DCD) policy. Previous studies have demonstrated variability in DCD policy elements.…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Knowledge Gaps and Perceptions of Liver Disease and Liver Transplant Referral Serve as Barriers to Transplant Among Primary Care Providers in Non-Urban America
M. Wright¹, V. Madabhushi¹, A. R. Garcia², N. Pope², A. Murphy³, C. N. Taylor¹, R. Gedaly¹, M. Gupta¹
¹Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ³School of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
*Purpose: The path to liver transplant (LTX) typically begins with primary care providers(PCPs), and is dependent on timely referral to transplant centers. The referral patterns…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Contacts Between Organ Donor Families and Their Recipients is Therapeutic for Both Sides in Most Cases
R. Green
Nicholas Green Foundation, La Canada Flintridge, CA
*Purpose: The study's purpose is to discover if making it possible for organ donor families to contact their recipients -- when both sides express the…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The New Heart Allocation Policy Has Increased Listing by Exception
J. R. Golbus¹, Y. Ahn², B. K. Nallamothu¹, M. N. Walsh³, D. Zaun², A. Israni², M. Colvin¹
¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ³Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center, Carmel, IN
*Purpose: The new heart allocation policy (October 2018) expanded the number of listing statuses and established a national review board for exception requests in an…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Do CMS Oversight and the Systems Improvement Agreement Really Change Institutional Behavior?
C. Hoopes
University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: A Systems Improvement Agreement (SIA) is a voluntary and binding legal agreement between CMS and a Medicare certified hospital designed to address Condition level…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplantation and Gender Disparities in Transplant Access and Outcomes
G. Peschard¹, M. Wang², Y. Al-Hosni³, K. Lentine⁴, S. Chang², T. Alhamad⁵
¹Nephrology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University in St Louis, Saint Louis, MO, ³Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, Saint Louis, MO, ⁴Saint Louis University Center for Abdominal Transplantation,, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ⁵Nephrology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO
*Purpose: The frequency of simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation (SLKT) has been rising since the implementation of the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD)-liver allocation system in…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Increased Survival Benefit Amongst Highest Priority Candidates Undergoing Heart Transplant Following the New Us Heart Allocation System
S. Tolmie¹, W. Parker²
¹Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: A key policy change in the new US heart allocation system was splitting the previous highest status (1A) into statuses 1, 2, and 3…

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