2018 American Transplant Congress
Offer Acceptance Practices and Geographic Variability in Allocation MELD at Transplant
1SRTR, Minneapolis; 2U.S. Navy, Anapolis.
Offer acceptance practices may cause geographic variability in allocation model for end-stage liver disease (aMELD) score at transplant and could magnify the apparent impact of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Is Percent Exception at Transplant a Driver of MELD Inflation?
1SRTR, Minneapolis, MN; 2Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 3Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Before 2016, the proportion of deceased donor liver recipients with an exception status at liver transplant (LT) correlated strongly with median MELD at transplant (MMaT)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Candidates Who Travel for Liver Transplantation and the Donor Organs They Receive
Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Background:Geographic disparities in access to liver transplantation (LT) has led to candidates seeking LT outside their home UNOS region (“Travelers”). Little is known about their…2018 American Transplant Congress
No Correlation between US News "Best Hospitals" Rank and Outcome of Liver or Kidney Transplantation
Introduction:Increased need for quality and cost effective healthcare has led to lay-press rankings such as U.S. News and World Report (USN). USN's “Best Hospitals” publication…2018 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Variation in the Treatment of Adult Heart Transplant Candidates in the US
1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
The current priority ranking system for US heart transplant candidates is based on treatment intensity which may encourage the overtreatment of relatively stable candidates. We…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Kidney Allocation System from the Perspective of a Small Program in a Donor Service Area
This study investigated the impact of the new kidney allocation system (KAS) on a small transplant program (SP) when compared with the 3 other centers…2018 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Kidney Allocation System on a Solitary, Isolated, Rural Transplant Program
The new kidney allocation system (KAS) was expected to create an impact on smaller, rural and geographically isolated centers.Methods. We examined the changes by the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Variation in the Survival Benefit of Heart Transplantation
1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Purpose: Heart transplant candidate selection and treatment practices vary substantially across the US. We aimed to determine if transplant center practices modify the survival benefit…2018 American Transplant Congress
Program-Specific Transplant Rate Ratios: Association with Allocation Priority at Listing and Posttransplant Outcomes
The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) has updated the transplant rate and waitlist mortality risk-adjustment models to include a wider range of candidate characteristics…2018 American Transplant Congress
Demographic and Geographic Differences in the Proportion of Liver Disease Deaths Captured by the Transplant Waitlist in the United States, 2011 – 2015
Background: There are no population-based estimates of the prevalence of end-stage liver disease in the United States, creating challenges in measuring disease burden to inform…
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