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Articles tagged "Public policy"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Transplant Center Quality Assessment: Correlation Between Early Graft Outcomes and Patient-Centered Assessments of Hospital Care

    A. Mathur,1 A. Chakrabarti,2 K. Sheetz,2 N. Katariya,1 A. Singer,1 W. Hewitt,1 K. Reddy,1 A. Moss.1

    1Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; 2Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

    Background: Patients selecting a transplant center use public reports of outcomes to empower their decision-making. Patient-focused quality measures are lacking in transplantation, but are a…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Estimated Prevalence of HIV in Kidney Transplant Candidates

    A. Shaffer, X. Luo, L. Kucirka, A. Cash, A. Massie, C. Durand, D. Segev.

    Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

    The passage of the HOPE Act in November 2013 mandated research into HIV+ to HIV+ organ transplantation. To date, the prevalence of HIV in the…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Racial Disparities in Living Donor Liver Transplantation

    Y. Nobel,1 K. Forde,2 L. Wood,3 P. Yoo,4 P. Abt,3 D. Goldberg.2

    1Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 3Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 4Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

    Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an alternative to deceased donor transplantation (DDLT), and can mitigate the risk of dying while waiting for transplant.…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    A Discrete Choice Experiment to Explore Patients' Preferences for Kidney Transplant Monitoring by Video-Conferencing

    S. Brunet-Houdard,1 M. Giral,2 S. Gaboriau,2 A. Meurette,2 P. Daguin,2 P. Tessier.3

    1UEME, SIMEES, Tours University Hospital, Tours, France; 2Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France; 3EA 4275, Nantes University, Nantes, France.

    INTRODUCTIONAn experiment to assess the clinical outcomes and the economic efficiency of a videoconferencing system for the renal transplant patient's monitoring is currently under way…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Attitudes and Beliefs About Organ Donation: Focus Group Study in Arabic-Speaking Communities in Australia

    A. Ralph,1,2 A. Alyami,3,4 R. Allen,3,4 K. Howard,1 J. Craig,1,2 S. Chadban,3,4 M. Irving,1,2 A. Tong.1,2

    1Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 2Centre for Kidney Research, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; 3Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 4Transplantation Services, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

    Background: The demand for transplantable organs continues to outweigh supply across the globe, especially in the provision of deceased donor organs from ethnic minority populations.…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Historical Comparison of Projected and Observed Liver Transplants

    J. Pyke,1 D. Schladt,1 W. Kim,5 S. Leppke,1 J. Lake,4 S. Gentry,2,3 D. Segev,2 A. Israni,1 J. Snyder.1

    1SRTR, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN; 2Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 3Mathematics, US Naval Academy, Baltimore, MD; 4Medicine and Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN; 5School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

    We aimed to compare liver transplant simulation projections to observed data before and after a major policy update. The current liver simulated allocation model (LSAM…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Discard of Kidneys at the Margin: ECD Versus KDPI Era

    S. Bae, A. Massie, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.

    BACKGROUND: Since 3/26/2012, the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI), a percentile score reflecting donor-associated risk, has been provided with all deceased-donor kidney offers. We investigated…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Graft Outcome Disparity in a Single Renal Transplant Center Based on Recipient Geographic Origin

    R. Flynn, W. Qu, D. Fumo, T. Suttle, S. Selman, M. Rees, J. Ortiz.

    University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH.

    PURPOSE: The disparity in access to organs for kidney transplantation has led to inter-state “transplant tourism.” Our objective was to determine if recipients traveling over…
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