Articles tagged "Public policy"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Validation of New Measures of Self-Efficacy and Decision-Making for Living Donors
A. D. Waterman¹, D. Peipert², J. L. Beaumont³, F. Weng⁴
¹Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: Kidney transplants from living donors (LD) impart the best clinical outcomes but have declined substantially over the past 15 years. To intervene with LDs…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Single Center Kidney Costs and Transplant Outcomes Analysis of Undocumented Aliens
Y. A. Qazi, E. Villalon, T. Sadiq, E. Qazi, E. Mir, A. Reza, M. Smogorzewski
USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The purpose of the study was to perform an outcomes and cost comparison analysis between dialysis and kidney transplantation in individuals identified as undocumented…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Decision-Making of 2576 Potential Living Kidney Donors of Different Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds
A. Waterman¹, G. H. Kim¹, Y. Cui², O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, U. Reddy⁴, B. Campbell⁵, F. L. Weng⁶
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, ⁵Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: To better understand racial/ethnic disparities associated with kidney living donation, this study examined differences in potential living kidney donors’ decision-making, resistance to donation, and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Assessing the Feasibility to Collect Organ Transplantation and Procurement Logistics Data
A. M. Placona, C. Humphries, R. Ehrensberger, J. Wainwright
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: There has been increased focus on the logistics of organ transplantation. Stemming from recent policies designed to facilitate broader sharing. Reliable methods of assessing…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A 15-year Experience With Kidney Transplant In Undocumented Immigrants: Outcomes And An Argument For Transplantation
M. G. Janeway¹, A. Foster², S. De Geus¹, K. Curreri¹, T. Dechert¹, M. Nuhn¹, M. Nuhn¹
¹Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Boston University School fo Medicine, Boston, MA
*Purpose: We investigated whether undocumented immigrants have similar outcomes after renal transplant compared to documented recipients.*Methods: We retrospectively analyzed records of adult renal transplant recipients…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Video Intervention to Increase Organ Donor Registration (ODR) at the Department of Motorized Vehicles (DMV)
D. A. DuBay¹, T. Morinelli¹, D. Redden², N. Ivankova², I. Herbey³, C. L. Holt⁴, L. Siminoff⁵, M. Fouad², Z. Su⁶, M. Martin⁷
¹Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁵Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ⁷University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: To implement a sustainable, low cost DMV-based intervention that increased ODR of DMV patrons, and secondarily, increase ODR in African Americans (AAs).*Methods: Results from…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Kidney Discards with Donor Admission Text
A. Placona, C. Martinez, B. Carrico
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Kidney discard rates have increased in part due to technological advancements and deceased donor policy updates that allow for recovery of organs at increased…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The C-Statistic Provides No Information on the Accuracy of Program Evaluations or the Presence of Unmeasured Confounders
A. Wey, N. Salkowski, B. Kasiske, M. Skeans, S. Gustafson, A. Israni, J. Snyder
SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The C-statistic of risk-adjustment models is regularly used to assess accuracy of program evaluations or determine presence of unmeasured confounding. However, the C-statistic depends…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Patterns Of Anti-retroviral Use Among U.s. Liver Transplant Candidates With Hiv
A. A. Shaffer¹, A. G. Thomas², D. L. Segev³
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Surgery & Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: There is a high burden of liver disease among HIV-infected (HIV+) individuals, and the class of antiretroviral therapy (ART) used for their treatment may…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Opioid Use Policies and Practices in Liver Transplant and Lung Transplant Candidates: A Comparison of National Surveys
H. Bruschwein¹, V. Andersen¹, H. Patel², S. S. Rogal³, J. N. Fleming⁴
¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ²University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Pre-transplant opioid use has been associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Alternatively, opioid substitution therapy (OST) has been proven to be a…