2017 American Transplant Congress
Community Health, Center Proximity, and Liver Transplant Waitlist Mortality.
1Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 2Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background: While regional organ availability is frequently discussed in allocation policy, the impact of community-level factors and access to a transplant center on waitlist mortality…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…2016 American Transplant Congress
Simulating Alternative Bayesian Criteria to Identify Transplant Center Performance Outliers.
The newly constructed Bayesian models to evaluate transplant center performance were implemented in 2014. The rates and impact of the assumptions used for flagging centers…2016 American Transplant Congress
Have We Gone Too Far Defining Performance Outliers? One-Third of Kidney Transplant Programs Now Identified for Low Performance within Three Years.
Transplant center report cards developed by SRTR are publicly available and utilized for regulatory oversight and insurance contracting. There are significant associations of performance oversight…2016 American Transplant Congress
NEAD Chains Do Not Disadvantage Blood Type O, Black, or Highly Sensitized Patients.
1UT, Toledo; 2UCSF, SF; 3SLU, St Louis; 4Stanford, Palo Alto; 5Arbor Res, Ann Arbor.
Introduction: NEAD chains raised concern that wait-listed blood type (BT) O patients and racial minorities would be disadvantaged by allocation of a non-directed donor (NDD)…2016 American Transplant Congress
Investigating Geographic Variation in the Number of Deceased Donor Transplants Performed in the U.S.
Background: In 2014 the number of deceased donor transplants (DDT) increased greatly compared to the period from 2005 to 2013 when there were minimal changes…2016 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Social Barriers to Health Literacy in ESRD Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplant Evaluation.
Background: Low health literacy is associated with increased hospitalizations and mortality. ESRD patients have reduced health literacy as ESRD disproportionately affects the elderly and individuals…2016 American Transplant Congress
Implicit Bias in Dialysis Providers' Transplant Education Practices for Low-Income and Racial/Ethnic Minority Patients.
Low-income or racial/ethnic minority dialysis patients (low-income/minority) are less likely to receive transplant education and, ultimately, kidney transplant. We conducted a mixed-methods study with 4…
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