Articles tagged "Public policy"

2020 American Transplant Congress
The Importance of Annual Medicare Part D Plan Evaluation in Heart Transplantation
L. M. Lourenco
Pharmacy Services, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The Medicare open enrollment period is from Oct 15 to Dec 7, annually. The purpose of this project was to objectively measure the benefit…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Flagging of Transplant Centers Associated with Increased Waitlist Mortality among Liver Candidates
R. L. Grant, B. A. Shelton, P. A. MacLennan, R. D. Reed, R. M. Cannon, B. J. Orandi, D. E. Eckhoff, J. E. Locke
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated decreased transplant rates among poor performing transplant centers meeting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) flagging criteria. However, no…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Traveling For Transplant: A Comparison of Singly Listed, Multiply Listed, and Non-Citizen Non-Resident Liver Transplant Candidates
H. J. Braun¹, D. Amara¹, A. Shui¹, C. Huang¹, P. G. Stock¹, R. Hirose¹, F. L. Delmonico², N. L. Ascher¹
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Multiply listed (ML) and non-citizen non-resident (NCNR) patients comprise approximately 8% of the liver transplant (LT) waitlist (WL) and approximately 4% of LT recipients.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the 2015 LAS Revisions on Lung Candidates with Pulmonary Vascular Disease
K. Lindblad¹, R. Goff¹, K. Chan²
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: On February 19, 2015 a major revision to the Lung Allocation Score (LAS) was implemented with the goal of more accurately reflecting waitlist urgency…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison of Kidney Paired Donation Education Delivery Across 68 National Kidney Registry-Affiliated Centers
A. Waterman¹, E. H. Wood¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², S. McGuire³, K. Miller⁴, V. Chipman⁵, J. Sinacore⁶, M. Cooper⁷
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UW Health, Madison, WI, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, ⁷Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: To understand the kidney paired donation (KPD) educational delivery process and variation across centers affiliated with the National Kidney Registry (NKR) we surveyed transplant…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Is Total Ischemic Time a Measure of OPTN Efficiency? Monitoring the Impact of Lung Allocation Policy on Ischemic Time
A. M. Placona¹, R. R. Goff¹, P. Shay², B. Carrico¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Health Administration, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: There is concern that the shift to circle based organ allocation policy may increase coordination costs. Within both public comment and the peer reviewed…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Challenges to National Kidney Paired Donation Education and Opportunities for Improvement
A. Waterman¹, E. H. Wood¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², S. McGuire³, K. Miller⁴, V. Chipman⁵, J. Sinacore⁶, M. Cooper⁷
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UW Health, Madison, WI, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, ⁷Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: To increase kidney paired donation (KPD) rates nationally, we need to overcome systematic barriers to educating potential donors and recipients consistently about the option…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlisted Patients’ Preferences for Accepting and Consenting to Transplantation with Experimentally Manipulated Organs
E. J. Gordon¹, P. Abt², C. Phillips², F. Bermudez², B. Knopf¹, J. Lee¹, R. Veatch³, R. Knight⁴, P. T. Conway⁴, J. Goldstein⁵, S. Dunn⁶, P. Reese²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Georgetown University, Washington, DC, ⁴American Association of Kidney Patients, Tampa, FL, ⁵Lung Transplant Foundation, Raleigh, NC, ⁶Donor Alliance, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Organ donor intervention research (“intervention research”) aims to increase organ quality and quantity for transplantation by protecting against organ injury and enhancing functionality. Given…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Health Professional Level Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Mixed Methods Study
R. Iskander¹, M. Cantarovich¹, N. Dendukuri¹, M. Fortin², S. Sandal¹
¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Despite the benefits of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), rates have stagnated. Efforts to increase LDKT have focused on patient level barriers. Health professionals…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Interviews to Explore the Public Attitudes on the Use of Imminent Death Donation
P. Moolchandani¹, L. Washburn¹, M. Goss², S. Parsons³, R. Brown³, E. Ranova³, R. Ackah¹, K. Myer⁴, R. Wood⁴, A. Rana¹, J. Goss¹, T. Galván¹
¹Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ³Rice University, Houston, TX, ⁴LifeGift, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Imminent death donation (IDD) describes non-fatal recovery of a living donor organ (a single kidney or partial liver) prior to a planned withdrawal of…

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