Articles tagged "Public policy"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Determinants of Kidney Transplant Candidates’ Willingness to Accept Deceased Donor Organ Intervention Research: A Conjoint Analysis
E. Gordon¹, P. Reese², J. Lee¹, L. Krishnamurthi¹, R. Veatch³, R. Knight⁴, P. T. Conway⁴, S. Dunn⁵, P. Abt²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Georgetown University, Washington, DC, ⁴American Association of Kidney Diseases, Tampa, FL, ⁵Organ Alliance, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Deceased donor organ intervention research (“intervention research”) aims to increase organ quality and quantity for transplantation by protecting against organ injury and enhancing functionality.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Your Path to Transplant Tailored Education Increases Living Donation Transplant Actions and Wait-Listing Rates: Final Randomized Controlled Trial Findings
A. Waterman¹, Y. Cui², J. L. Beaumont², J. D. Peipert³, A. Paiva⁴, M. L. Robbins⁴
¹Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
*Purpose: Tailoring education and behavior change interventions to address gaps in individual patients’ knowledge, readiness, and socio-economic challenges may help more end-stage kidney disease patients…
2020 American Transplant Congress
From Nudge to Nudges: Organizational Factors Explaining Different Incentives but Similarly Low Kidney Donation Outcomes in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
W. Lu
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The research asks why global living and deceased donor rates of the past 15 years in advanced economies far exceed those occurring in Singapore,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Heart of the Matter: The Impact of the 2018 Heart Allocation Policy at a Single Organ Procurement Organization
A. J. Boyer, J. B. Nave, C. A. Hostetler, C. C. Muse, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski
LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: In 2018, allocation policy changed with the goal of lowering waitlist mortality by increasing access to donor hearts. We sought to describe the impact…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation and the Impact of Medicaid Expansion
T. A. Melanson¹, S. Pastan², R. Patzer¹
¹Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²SOM: Medicine: Nephrology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplant (LDKTx) is the preferred treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Medicaid Expansion increased insurance coverage and this influx of insured…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Neighborhood Deprivation is Associated with Decreased Rates of Organ Donor Designation
S. I. Wadhwani¹, J. Bucuvalas², C. Brokamp¹, M. A. Bhuiyan¹, J. C. Lai³, A. Beck¹
¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Only half of adults in the United States are designated as organ donors on their state driver’s license or identification card. We leveraged data…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Attitude towards Organ Donation among Medical Students: Relationship to Knowledge and Beliefs
A. Cerrato, M. Salifu, M. Markell
Nephrology/Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of organ donation may underlie physician unwillingness to refer patients for organ donation. We examined baseline knowledge and beliefs…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Do Reimbursement Programs Increase The Number Of Living Organ Donations?
A. Siddique¹, J. Ortiz², S. Fry-Revere², V. Apte², Y. Jin³, N. Koizumi¹
¹Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, ²University of Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH, ³The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
*Purpose: Living-donor kidney transplantation is the gold standard treatment for the end-stage renal disease. However, living donors worldwide face significant financial and logistic barriers. To…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Twin Epidemics: Drug Overdoses And Suicides Are Increasingly Fueling The United States Donor Liver Supply
M. Goss¹, M. Kueht¹, N. Galvan¹, J. Reece², A. Rana¹
¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: In 2010, 6893 donor livers were procured for United States (U.S.) transplant. A reduction from the former pinnacle of U.S. liver transplant in 2006,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Modeling the Effect of Presumed Consent on Waitlist Candidate Quantities
L. DeRoos¹, W. Marrero¹, M. Lavieri¹, D. Hutton², N. Parikh³
¹Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Organ transplantation is a life-saving and cost-effective treatment for patients with end-organ failure. However, the current supply of donors is unable to match demand,…