Articles tagged "Public policy"

2017 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Social Support on Kidney Transplant Listing Decisions: Results from a Discrete Choice Experiment.
K. Ladin,^1,2 J. Emerson,² Z. Butt, E. Gordon, D. Hanto, T. Lavelle.²
¹Occupational Therapy, Tufts University, Medford, MA; ²Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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.
Y. Bababekov, D. Chang, Y.-C. Hung, J. Adler, S. Stapleton, J. Markmann, H. Yeh.
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.
B. Murthy, N. Galvan, J. Moffett, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana.
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?
Y. Bababekov, D. Chang, Y.-C. Hung, J. Adler, S. Stapleton, J. Markmann, H. Yeh.
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…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Environmental Impact of Dialysis vs Transplantation.
M. Grafals,¹ R. Sanchez.²
¹Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; ²Environmental Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
Introduction: Hemodialysis has a large environmental impact because it uses large volumes of water, medical supplies and energy. A patient undergoing weekly dialysis treatment (three…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Simplified EPTS Score: Who Wins and Who Loses?
J. Schold, E. Poggio, R. Fatica, S. Flechner, L. Buccini, D. Goldfarb.
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
The New Kidney Allocation System includes provisions that candidates with EPTS score in the lowest 20% (indicating best expected survival) have access to the highest…
2016 American Transplant Congress
An Assurance of Insurance: Should Living Kidney Donors Be Required to Have Health Insurance?
J. Siegel,¹ A. Humar,² P. Gianaros,¹ J. Steel.²
¹Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ²Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Lack of health insurance has been related lack of access to health care, poorer health, and increased mortality. In this study, we investigate sociodemographic predictors…
2016 American Transplant Congress
What Living Organ Donors See as Their Unmet Needs in the United States.
S. Fry-Revere, M. Middelman.
American Living Organ Donor Network, Lovettsville, VA; American Living Organ Donor Network, Lovettsville, VA.
Study PurposeTo collect data on what living organ donors themselves say they want and need to make living organ donation safer and easier.MethodFor 12 months,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Significant Increase in Wait List Removals for Candidates Considered Too Sick from the US Kidney Transplant Waiting List.
E. Poggio, L. Buccini, S. Flechner, D. Goldfarb, J. Schold.
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Approximately 59,000 kidney transplant candidates have been removed from the waiting list since 2000 for reasons other than transplantation, death, or transfers. In 2014, reasons…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Peer Mentoring to Improve Access to Kidney Transplantation in the Southeast.
J. Gander,¹ S. McMath,² M. Rudd,² L. Sauls,³ S. Tripathi,¹ L. Plantinga,¹ L. McPherson,¹ T. Browne,⁴ S. Pastan,¹ R. Patzer.¹
¹Emory University, Atlanta; ²Georgia Transplant Foundation, Atlanta; ³ESRD Network 6, Raleigh; ⁴University of South Carolina, Columbia.
BACKGROUND The Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition's (SEKTC) mission is to improve the low kidney transplantation (KTx) rate in the North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.…