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Articles tagged "Public policy"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Identifying Predictors of Organ Donation Among African-American Men

    C. Harris,1 C. Modlin,1 S. Olden,2 A. Nowacki,3 T. Franklin,4 J. Canedy,1 M. Tavaras,1 A. Harris,1 Y. Hamilton,5 C. Zaramo.1

    1Glickman Urologic & Kidney Institute Minority Men's Health Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; 3Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 4College of Medicine, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA; 5Lifebanc of Ohio, Cleveland, OH.

    Objective: The growth of the national transplant waiting list continues to far outpace the number of available organs, particularly among African Americans (AA). This study…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Preferences for Policy Options for Deceased Organ Donation for Transplantation: A Discrete Choice Experiment

    K. Howard,1 S. Jan,2 J. Rose,3 G. Wong,1,4 J. Craig,1,4 M. Irving,1 A. Tong,1,4 S. Chadban,1,5 R. Allen,5 A. Cass.6

    1The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; 2The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia; 3Institute for Choice, University of South Australia, North Sydney, Australia; 4Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, Australia; 5Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia; 6Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia.

    Background: Despite broad public support for organ donation, there is a chronic shortage of deceased donor organs. We sought to identify features of an organ…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Geographic Variation in Listing Practices Represents Competetive Behaviors and Access to Care Rather Than Differences in Demand for Liver Transplantation

    J. Voss,1 R. Gilroy,1 D. Goldberg,2 T. Schmitt,1 S. Kumer.1

    1University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    Purpose: This study evaluates whether program and patient demographics influence liver transplant listing practices.Methods:2013 liver waiting list and transplant (Tx) variables, US Census socioeconomic variables,…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    “Unexpected” Positive Crossmatchs in Zero-HLA-A-B-DR Mismatched or HLA-DR-Matched Organs

    K. Haarberg,1 M. Cusick,1 M. Abecassis,1 A. Jaramillo,2 B. Kaplan,3 A. Tambur.1

    1Transplant Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network, Itasca, IL; 3Center for Transplantation, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.

    Deceased donor kidney allocation is currently prioritized by HLA-A,-B and-DR serologic matching, which disregards both specificity at the allele level, and the contributions of HLA-C,-DQ,…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Should We Ever Pay Living Kidney Donors? Focus Group Study of Public Opinion

    A. Tong,1,2 A. Ralph,1,2 J. Chapman,3 G. Wong,1,2,3 J. Gill,4 M. Josephson,5 C. Hanson,1,2 J. Craig.1,2

    1School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; 2Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia; 3Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia; 4Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 5Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago.

    Background: The unmet demand for kidney transplantation has generated intense controversy about introducing incentives for living kidney donors to increase donation rates. Such debates may…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Day of Week Influences Kidney Utilization

    K. Foley, M. Chiles, S. Mohan.

    Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.

    Background: From 2000 to 2013, 17% of all kidneys procured for transplantation from deceased organ donors in the United States were discarded. The high rate…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Trends in Transplant Patient Safety Situation Reporting

    T. Daly,1 H. Neil,2 D. Stewart,2 S. Tlusty,2 A. Harper,2 D. Marshman,3 M. Green.4

    1NY-Presbyterian Hosp., New York, NY; 2UNOS, Richmond, VA; 3LifeNet Health, Roanoke, VA; 4Children's Hosp. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Background: The OPTN Operations & Safety Committee is charged with reviewing aggregated, de-identified safety situation data reported through both the UNet Improving Patient Safety (IPS)…
  • 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

    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

    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…
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