Articles tagged "Public policy"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Assessing the Feasibility to Collect Organ Transplantation and Procurement Logistics Data
A. M. Placona, C. Humphries, R. Ehrensberger, J. Wainwright
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: There has been increased focus on the logistics of organ transplantation. Stemming from recent policies designed to facilitate broader sharing. Reliable methods of assessing…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Variability in Educational Content about Kidney Paired Donation at 68 National Kidney Registry-Affiliated Centers
A. D. Waterman¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, E. H. Wood¹, J. L. Beaumont², S. McGuire³, K. Miller⁴, V. Chipman⁵, J. Sinacore⁶, M. Cooper⁷
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UW Health, Madison, WI, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, ⁷Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Equipping patients and donors with in-depth information about kidney paired donation (KPD) processes, risks, benefits, and protections is necessary for informed decision-making and comfort.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
How Prepared are Potential Donors to Donate?: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Potential Kidney Donors’ Knowledge and Education Before Starting Evaluation
A. Waterman¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, Y. Cui², J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, U. Reddy⁴, B. Campbell⁵, F. L. Weng⁶
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³Division of Nephrology, UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, ⁵Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: Potential living donors of different races/ethnicities present for kidney donor evaluation with varying levels of knowledge.*Methods: We surveyed potential living donors about how they…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Survey of Public Attitudes Towards Imminent Death Donation in the United States
L. Washburn¹, T. Galvan¹, P. Moolchandani¹, S. Rath¹, R. Ackah², S. Parsons³, R. P. Brown³, E. Ranova³, M. Goss⁴, A. Rana¹, J. A. Goss¹
¹Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Department of Surgery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ³Rice University, Houston, TX, ⁴Department of Bioethics, Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Imminent Death Donation (IDD) has been proposed as a method to increase the number of high-quality organs available for transplant. Although IDD was ethically…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characterizing the Waitlist Candidate Who Was Bypassed by the Successfully Transplanted Candidate with Alcoholic Hepatitis
J. Ge¹, C. L. Berg², F. Y. Yao¹, J. P. Roberts³, J. C. Lai¹
¹Medicine - Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Duke University, Durham, NC, ³Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Early liver transplantation (LT) for acute alcoholic hepatitis (AH) has increased dramatically in the US since 2016. Due to high MELD-Na scores, AH candidates…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Influence of Spirituality and Other Motivations on Potential Kidney Living Donors’ Decisions to Donate by Race/Ethnicity
A. Waterman¹, G. H. Kim¹, Y. Cui², O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, U. Reddy⁴, B. Campbell⁵, F. L. Weng⁶
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, ⁵Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: Few studies have explored potential kidney living donors’ motivations to donate, particularly their spirituality, and assessed whether these motivations vary by race/ethnicity.*Methods: 2576 potential…
2020 American Transplant Congress
An Early Look at the National Liver Review Board
S. Noreen¹, R. Hirose², J. Trotter³, J. Heimbach⁴
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Texas Digestive Disease Consultants, Dallas, TX, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: On May 14, 2019, the National Liver Review Board (NLRB) was implemented, establishing a national structure for liver exceptions comprised of three specialty review…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Your Path to Transplant Tailored Education Increases Living Donation Transplant Actions and Wait-Listing Rates: Final Randomized Controlled Trial Findings
A. Waterman¹, Y. Cui², J. L. Beaumont², J. D. Peipert³, A. Paiva⁴, M. L. Robbins⁴
¹Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
*Purpose: Tailoring education and behavior change interventions to address gaps in individual patients’ knowledge, readiness, and socio-economic challenges may help more end-stage kidney disease patients…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Implementing a Height Based Rule for Allocation of Pediatric Donor Livers to Adults – A Liver Simulated Allocation Model (LSAM) Study
J. Ge¹, W. L. Nicholas², S. Gentry², J. C. Lai¹
¹Medicine-Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Mathematics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
*Purpose: Candidate height contributes to transplant rate and waitlist (WL) mortality disparities seen amongst adult women liver transplant (LT) candidates. 72% of adult women on…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Determinants of Kidney Transplant Candidates’ Willingness to Accept Deceased Donor Organ Intervention Research: A Conjoint Analysis
E. Gordon¹, P. Reese², J. Lee¹, L. Krishnamurthi¹, R. Veatch³, R. Knight⁴, P. T. Conway⁴, S. Dunn⁵, P. Abt²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Georgetown University, Washington, DC, ⁴American Association of Kidney Diseases, Tampa, FL, ⁵Organ Alliance, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Deceased donor organ intervention research (“intervention research”) aims to increase organ quality and quantity for transplantation by protecting against organ injury and enhancing functionality.…