Articles tagged "Public policy"

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…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Social Determinants of Health Are Associated with Pre-Emptive Wait Listing and Do Not Fully Account for Racial Gap in Early Access to the Waitlist
A. M. Zehner¹, L. A. Cartwright², T. Mupfudze², T. Wilson², A. Placona², B. Carrico²
¹Research Department, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Research Department, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: We leveraged a novel data linkage of candidate-level indicators of social determinants of health (SDOH) among kidney waitlist candidates in the United States to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Survey of Current Transplant Center Practices Regarding Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates in the United States
B. E. Hippen¹, D. Axelrod², K. Maher³, R. Xi³, D. Kumar⁴, M. Schnitzler³, K. Lentine³
¹Head of Transplant Medicine, Fresenius Medical Care, Charlotte, NC, ²University of Iowa Transplant Clinic, Iowa City, IA, ³St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ⁴Ajmera Transplant Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: We surveyed current policies of transplant centers regarding a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and rationales for or against a mandate policy.*Methods: An electronic survey was…