2019 American Transplant Congress
Determining the Role of Insurance Coverage at the Time of Renal Transplantation as a Predictor of Medication Misadventure
Pharmacy, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: To determine if patients who receive financial assistance through the American Kidney Fund (AKF) for health care premiums at the time of transplant are…2019 American Transplant Congress
OPO Aggressiveness Index: A Novel OPO Performance Metric That Incentivizes Pursuit of Marginal Deceased Donor Candidates
*Purpose: Of 2.5M deaths in the US every year, only 10,000 are recovered for transplantation; recovery of organs from older donors is rare although similar…2019 American Transplant Congress
Sensitivity of 5-Tier System to Unadjusted Confounding
*Purpose: The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) fits risk-adjusted models for its semiannual program-specific reports (PSRs). Although SRTR adjusts for as many important risk…2019 American Transplant Congress
Organ Procurement Organization Performance is Not Related to Educational Spending
*Purpose: We examined the educational spending by OPOs in relationship to OPO performance metrics.*Methods: Data sources: OPO Cost Reports (CMS 216-94 Form), SRTR OPO Specific…2019 American Transplant Congress
Simulated Tier Variability
*Purpose: The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients semi-annually assigns transplant programs to one of five performance tiers for 1-year graft survival in its program-specific reports…2019 American Transplant Congress
Mortality around the One-Year Survival Metric after Liver Transplantation in the United States
*Purpose: Liver transplant programs in the United States are evaluated on one-year survival, among other factors. This may create an unintended incentive to continue life-sustaining…2019 American Transplant Congress
Costs of Kidney Recoveries Varies Dramatically across Organ Procurement Organizations
*Purpose: Report on the wide variation across OPOs in the cost of kidney recovery from deceased donors.*Methods: Cost reports (CMS 216-94 Form) from 52 Independent…2019 American Transplant Congress
Association between Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care Act and Preemptive Kidney Transplantation of Low-Income Medicaid Beneficiaries
*Purpose: The lack of affordable health insurance options is a known barrier to preemptive kidney transplantation (KT) among low-income individuals with non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney…2019 American Transplant Congress
Beyond Medication Education: Opportunities for Improvement in Health Education of Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: As immunosuppressive medications are crucial to graft and patient survival, transplant centers dedicate significant resources to medication education. However, patient outcomes also depend on…2019 American Transplant Congress
Associations between State-Level Donor Designation Rate and Organ Procurement Organization Characteristics and Outcomes
*Purpose: The impact of “Donor Designation (DDSR)”, a pledge to donate with state drivers licensing authority, has not been explored. This work focusses on estimating…
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