2017 American Transplant Congress
Program-Specific Offer Acceptance Behavior for Kidney Programs Across the Spectrum of KDPI.
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN
Little is known about the offer acceptance behavior of kidney transplant programs, which affects rates of discard and access to transplant. An offer acceptance model…2017 American Transplant Congress
An OPO Offer Acceptance Report for Hard-to-Place Kidneys.
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN
Transplant program offer acceptance behavior varies substantially for kidneys after 100 previous offers (i.e., “hard-to-place offers”). An organ procurement organization (OPO) offer acceptance report could…2017 American Transplant Congress
OPO Performance Metrics: Relationship with Kidney Transplant Program Performance Metrics and Kidney Utilization.
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN
Organ procurement organization (OPO) performance metrics have been scrutinized due to the perceived disincentives of the regulatory system. In kidney transplantation, OPOs are evaluated on…2017 American Transplant Congress
Donor Families' Perspectives of the Harms of Failed Donation After Circulatory Death: A Qualitative Analysis.
Introduction: We sought to identify harms perceived by families of patients who underwent an unsuccessful attempt to donate organs after circulatory death.Methods: We identified a…2017 American Transplant Congress
Awareness of Change in the Kidney Allocation System Among Dialysis Providers from Facilities with Low Waitlisting.
Background: In December 2014, the new kidney allocation system (KAS) was implemented and is expected to particularly benefit patients who have spent an extended time…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Social Support on Kidney Transplant Listing Decisions: Results from a Discrete Choice Experiment.
Background: Although the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services require that social support be used to determine transplant eligibility, guidance is vague and centers vary…2017 American Transplant Congress
Disparities in Access to the Liver Transplant Wait List: A Statewide Analysis.
Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background:Racial disparities in access to the liver transplant wait list for patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) are thought to be attributable to differences in…2017 American Transplant Congress
Unintended Consequence of the New Kidney Allocation System – Disproportionate Allocation of High Quality Kidneys to Highly Sensitized Recipients.
Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Purpose: We hypothesize that improving access to highly sensitized candidates in new KAS would compromise the prime objective of matching the best kidney allografts and…2017 American Transplant Congress
Are ICD-9 V Codes Representative of the Liver Transplant Wait List?
Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background: Disparities in liver transplantation once wait listed are well-described, but little is known about how and why only 20% of end-stage liver disease patients…2017 American Transplant Congress
Reduction in Kidney Offer Acceptance at Centers Undergoing Systems Improvement Agreements.
Kidney transplant centers flagged twice by CMS for poor outcomes enter a Systems Improvement Agreement (SIA) if they fail to demonstrate mitigating factors. Motivated to…
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