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Articles tagged "Public policy"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Variation Exists in Hospital Policies for Donation After Circulatory Death Within a Single Donor Service Area

    R. Shabbir1, S. Chebrolu2, E. Vines3, C. Trahan3, P. Niles3, G. Testa1, A. Wall1

    1Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 2Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Dallas, TX, 3Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX

    *Purpose: The Joint Commission mandates that all hospitals have a donation after circulatory death (DCD) policy. Previous studies have demonstrated variability in DCD policy elements.…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Knowledge Gaps and Perceptions of Liver Disease and Liver Transplant Referral Serve as Barriers to Transplant Among Primary Care Providers in Non-Urban America

    M. Wright1, V. Madabhushi1, A. R. Garcia2, N. Pope2, A. Murphy3, C. N. Taylor1, R. Gedaly1, M. Gupta1

    1Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 3School of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

    *Purpose: The path to liver transplant (LTX) typically begins with primary care providers(PCPs), and is dependent on timely referral to transplant centers. The referral patterns…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Contacts Between Organ Donor Families and Their Recipients is Therapeutic for Both Sides in Most Cases

    R. Green

    Nicholas Green Foundation, La Canada Flintridge, CA

    *Purpose: The study's purpose is to discover if making it possible for organ donor families to contact their recipients -- when both sides express the…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The New Heart Allocation Policy Has Increased Listing by Exception

    J. R. Golbus1, Y. Ahn2, B. K. Nallamothu1, M. N. Walsh3, D. Zaun2, A. Israni2, M. Colvin1

    1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 3Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center, Carmel, IN

    *Purpose: The new heart allocation policy (October 2018) expanded the number of listing statuses and established a national review board for exception requests in an…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Do CMS Oversight and the Systems Improvement Agreement Really Change Institutional Behavior?

    C. Hoopes

    University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

    *Purpose: A Systems Improvement Agreement (SIA) is a voluntary and binding legal agreement between CMS and a Medicare certified hospital designed to address Condition level…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplantation and Gender Disparities in Transplant Access and Outcomes

    G. Peschard1, M. Wang2, Y. Al-Hosni3, K. Lentine4, S. Chang2, T. Alhamad5

    1Nephrology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 2Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University in St Louis, Saint Louis, MO, 3Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, Saint Louis, MO, 4Saint Louis University Center for Abdominal Transplantation,, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, 5Nephrology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO

    *Purpose: The frequency of simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation (SLKT) has been rising since the implementation of the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD)-liver allocation system in…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Increased Survival Benefit Amongst Highest Priority Candidates Undergoing Heart Transplant Following the New Us Heart Allocation System

    S. Tolmie1, W. Parker2

    1Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: A key policy change in the new US heart allocation system was splitting the previous highest status (1A) into statuses 1, 2, and 3…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Attitudes Toward Organ Donation in Arab-Based Population

    R. A. Almubark1, M. Alghonaim2, N. F. BinDhim3, B. Attar4, F. Abaalkhail5, F. Al Ammary6, S. A. Alqahtani7

    1Scientific Department, Sharik Association for Health Research, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2CEO, Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 3College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 4Medical Department, Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 5Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 6Comprehensive Transplant Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 7Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Commitment to organ donation may vary among willing younger and older adults. We aimed to understand attitudes toward organ donation among Arab adults.*Methods: We…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Moving Beyond the Waitlist in Measurement of Access in Kidney Transplantation

    L. C. McMichael, D. T. Chang, M. Kadatz, J. Gill

    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    *Purpose: Studies limited to waitlist candidates have suggested better access to kidney transplantation and fewer disparities in acesss since the new kidney allocation system (KAS)…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Removing DSA and OPTN Region from Pancreas Allocation

    S. E. Booker1, A. Robinson1, K. Gauntt1, J. White1, S. Niederhaus2, O. Olaitan3, R. Forbes4

    1UNOS, Richmond, VA, 2University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 3Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 4Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

    *Purpose: Donation Service Area (DSA) and OPTN Region were removed from pancreas allocation on 3/15/21 and replaced with a 250 nautical mile (NM) fixed circle…
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