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Articles tagged "Public policy"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    A Randomized Assessment of a County-Wide, Primary Care Provider (PCP) Office-Based Intervention for Organ Donor Registration

    M. McCabe1, K. M. Dokus2, N. J. Ryan2, A. James2, P. Veazie1, M. Orloff2, S. McIntosh2, R. Kashyap2

    1University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, 2University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    *Purpose: The number of individuals awaiting organ transplantation continues to rise steadily, with the current waitlist totaling over 100,000 patients. However, rates of organ donor…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Changes in Health Equity Under Liver Acuity Circles Allocation

    S. Noreen, J. Foutz, A. Henderson, D. Stewart

    United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA

    *Purpose: Acuity circles (AC) allocation was implemented on 2/4/2020 with a goal of removing DSA and region from liver allocation and sharing livers more broadly.…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Center-Level Variation in Transplantation Practice Following Acuity Circles Policy Change

    A. Burton1, D. Goldberg2

    1University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 2Department of Gastroenterology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL

    *Purpose: Although early studies suggest that the Acuity Circles (AC) allocation policy has reduced disparities in access to deceased donor liver transplants (DDLTs), changes in…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Cognitive Bias in Transplant Surgery: A Qualitative Study of Transplant Clinicians in the United States

    K. Ladin1, J. Perry2, C. Eiduson3

    1REACH Lab, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 3University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, NY

    *Purpose: Clinicians’ judgments about patients’ social support often affect whether patients are listed for transplantation. Decision-making is thought to be based on two systems of…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Immunotherapy Before Solid Organ Transplantation: An International Transplant Community-Focused Survey

    T. Ivanics1, M. P. Claasen1, D. Al-Adra2, G. Sapisochin3

    1University of Toronto - University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 3Multi-organ transplant program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

    *Purpose: The use of immunotherapy for cancer has increased and is expected to continue to grow. The outcomes after solid organ transplantation (SOT) in patients…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Increase in Exception and Extension Requests for Higher-Urgency Patients Under the New Heart Allocation Policy

    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: In October 2018, a new heart allocation policy was introduced that expanded the number of listing statuses and established a national review board, abolishing…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Variation Exists in Hospital Policies for Donation After Circulatory Death Within a Single Donor Service Area

    R. Shabbir1, S. Chebrolu2, E. Vines3, C. Trahan3, P. Niles3, G. Testa1, A. Wall1

    1Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 2Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Dallas, TX, 3Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX

    *Purpose: The Joint Commission mandates that all hospitals have a donation after circulatory death (DCD) policy. Previous studies have demonstrated variability in DCD policy elements.…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Knowledge Gaps and Perceptions of Liver Disease and Liver Transplant Referral Serve as Barriers to Transplant Among Primary Care Providers in Non-Urban America

    M. Wright1, V. Madabhushi1, A. R. Garcia2, N. Pope2, A. Murphy3, C. N. Taylor1, R. Gedaly1, M. Gupta1

    1Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 3School of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

    *Purpose: The path to liver transplant (LTX) typically begins with primary care providers(PCPs), and is dependent on timely referral to transplant centers. The referral patterns…
  • 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…
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