2015 American Transplant Congress
UNOS KDPI Score Is Significantly Overestimated for Pediatric En-Bloc Kidneys
Transplant Center, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA.
When Rao, et al, published the Kidney Donor Risk Index model (KDRI) (Transplantation 2009;88:231-236), they found coefficients for HLA match, cold ischemic time, en-bloc (EB)…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Critical Illness and Pre-Transplant Hospitalization on Cost of Liver Transplantation
Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
In order to understand the cost impact of hospitalization and ICU admission immediately prior to liver transplantation (LT), we obtained all hospital costs associated with…2015 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Predictors of Organ Donation Among African-American Men
Objective: The growth of the national transplant waiting list continues to far outpace the number of available organs, particularly among African Americans (AA). This study…2015 American Transplant Congress
Program-Effect Attenuation With Time Posttransplant
The program-specific reports produced by SRTR include 1-month, 1-year, and 3-year posttransplant graft and patient survival measures. The 1-month and 1-year measures use the same…2015 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Variation in Listing Practices Represents Competetive Behaviors and Access to Care Rather Than Differences in Demand for Liver Transplantation
Purpose: This study evaluates whether program and patient demographics influence liver transplant listing practices.Methods:2013 liver waiting list and transplant (Tx) variables, US Census socioeconomic variables,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Preferences for Policy Options for Deceased Organ Donation for Transplantation: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Background: Despite broad public support for organ donation, there is a chronic shortage of deceased donor organs. We sought to identify features of an organ…2015 American Transplant Congress
“Unexpected” Positive Crossmatchs in Zero-HLA-A-B-DR Mismatched or HLA-DR-Matched Organs
Deceased donor kidney allocation is currently prioritized by HLA-A,-B and-DR serologic matching, which disregards both specificity at the allele level, and the contributions of HLA-C,-DQ,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Should We Ever Pay Living Kidney Donors? Focus Group Study of Public Opinion
Background: The unmet demand for kidney transplantation has generated intense controversy about introducing incentives for living kidney donors to increase donation rates. Such debates may…2015 American Transplant Congress
Day of Week Influences Kidney Utilization
Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
Background: From 2000 to 2013, 17% of all kidneys procured for transplantation from deceased organ donors in the United States were discarded. The high rate…2015 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Transplant Patient Safety Situation Reporting
Background: The OPTN Operations & Safety Committee is charged with reviewing aggregated, de-identified safety situation data reported through both the UNet Improving Patient Safety (IPS)…
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