Articles tagged "Public policy"

2020 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison of Kidney Paired Donation Education Delivery Across 68 National Kidney Registry-Affiliated Centers
A. Waterman¹, E. H. Wood¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², S. McGuire³, K. Miller⁴, V. Chipman⁵, J. Sinacore⁶, M. Cooper⁷
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UW Health, Madison, WI, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, ⁷Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: To understand the kidney paired donation (KPD) educational delivery process and variation across centers affiliated with the National Kidney Registry (NKR) we surveyed transplant…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Is Total Ischemic Time a Measure of OPTN Efficiency? Monitoring the Impact of Lung Allocation Policy on Ischemic Time
A. M. Placona¹, R. R. Goff¹, P. Shay², B. Carrico¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Health Administration, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: There is concern that the shift to circle based organ allocation policy may increase coordination costs. Within both public comment and the peer reviewed…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Challenges to National Kidney Paired Donation Education and Opportunities for Improvement
A. Waterman¹, E. H. Wood¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², S. McGuire³, K. Miller⁴, V. Chipman⁵, J. Sinacore⁶, M. Cooper⁷
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UW Health, Madison, WI, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, ⁷Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: To increase kidney paired donation (KPD) rates nationally, we need to overcome systematic barriers to educating potential donors and recipients consistently about the option…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlisted Patients’ Preferences for Accepting and Consenting to Transplantation with Experimentally Manipulated Organs
E. J. Gordon¹, P. Abt², C. Phillips², F. Bermudez², B. Knopf¹, J. Lee¹, R. Veatch³, R. Knight⁴, P. T. Conway⁴, J. Goldstein⁵, S. Dunn⁶, P. Reese²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Georgetown University, Washington, DC, ⁴American Association of Kidney Patients, Tampa, FL, ⁵Lung Transplant Foundation, Raleigh, NC, ⁶Donor Alliance, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Organ donor intervention research (“intervention research”) aims to increase organ quality and quantity for transplantation by protecting against organ injury and enhancing functionality. Given…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Health Professional Level Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Mixed Methods Study
R. Iskander¹, M. Cantarovich¹, N. Dendukuri¹, M. Fortin², S. Sandal¹
¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Despite the benefits of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), rates have stagnated. Efforts to increase LDKT have focused on patient level barriers. Health professionals…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Interviews to Explore the Public Attitudes on the Use of Imminent Death Donation
P. Moolchandani¹, L. Washburn¹, M. Goss², S. Parsons³, R. Brown³, E. Ranova³, R. Ackah¹, K. Myer⁴, R. Wood⁴, A. Rana¹, J. Goss¹, T. Galván¹
¹Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ³Rice University, Houston, TX, ⁴LifeGift, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Imminent death donation (IDD) describes non-fatal recovery of a living donor organ (a single kidney or partial liver) prior to a planned withdrawal of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Validation of New Measures of Self-Efficacy and Decision-Making for Living Donors
A. D. Waterman¹, D. Peipert², J. L. Beaumont³, F. Weng⁴
¹Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: Kidney transplants from living donors (LD) impart the best clinical outcomes but have declined substantially over the past 15 years. To intervene with LDs…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Single Center Kidney Costs and Transplant Outcomes Analysis of Undocumented Aliens
Y. A. Qazi, E. Villalon, T. Sadiq, E. Qazi, E. Mir, A. Reza, M. Smogorzewski
USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The purpose of the study was to perform an outcomes and cost comparison analysis between dialysis and kidney transplantation in individuals identified as undocumented…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Multi-Organ Transplant Allocation Priority on Wait-Listed Isolated Kidney Transplant Candidates
S. Westphal¹, E. Langewisch¹, A. Robinson², A. Wilk², T. Plumb¹, R. Mullane¹, S. Merani¹, A. Hoffman¹, A. Maskin¹, C. Miles¹
¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Multi-Organ Transplant (MOT) candidates involving a kidney receive higher allocation priority than kidney alone transplant (KAT) candidates. The increasing utilization of MOT has the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Decision-Making of 2576 Potential Living Kidney Donors of Different Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds
A. Waterman¹, G. H. Kim¹, Y. Cui², O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, U. Reddy⁴, B. Campbell⁵, F. L. Weng⁶
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, ⁵Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: To better understand racial/ethnic disparities associated with kidney living donation, this study examined differences in potential living kidney donors’ decision-making, resistance to donation, and…