2018 American Transplant Congress
Positive Relationship between Transplant Center Volume and Utilization of Hard to Place Liver Allografts after Late Declines
Given ongoing waitlist mortality and the high rates of liver discard in the US we wanted to investigate late declines (LD), and very late declines…2018 American Transplant Congress
Improved Value with Individualized Antithymocyte Globulin Dosing Protocol in Renal Transplant
University of Virginia Healthsystem, Charlottesville, VA.
Medication costs represent one of the largest costs associated with transplantation. With growing pressure to reduce health care costs while maintaining excellent outcomes, this study…2018 American Transplant Congress
Improving the Organ Donation Referral Process through Telemedicine
1LiveOnNY, NY; 2Northwell Health, New Hyde Park.
Development of a Tele-ICU serving multiple institutions within our donor service area stimulated a collaborative performance improvement project. To improve the referral and timeliness rates…2018 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy of Current Educational Interventions in Improving Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Rates
McGill Unversity Health Center, Montreal, Canada.
IntroductionLack of knowledge and discomfort approaching a donor are two of the most common recognized, recipient-level barriers to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT). To address…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hospital Readmissions Following ABO-Incompatible Live Donor Kidney Transplantation: A National Study
1UCSF, San Francisco; 2Hopkins, Baltimore.
30% of kidney transplant recipients are readmitted in the first month post-transplant. ABO-incompatible (ABO-I) recipients constitute a unique subpopulation that might be at higher readmission…2018 American Transplant Congress
National Survey of Living Donor Program Educational Components and Resources
Purpose: Education about living donation (LD) has been identified as a significant barrier to increasing living donation. Little is known about how donors and transplant…2018 American Transplant Congress
Using the SRTR Expected Survival Worksheet to Estimate Expected Number of Events
The purpose of this effort is to provide transplant administrative and clinical directors with reliable predictions of Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) risk-adjusted 1-year…2018 American Transplant Congress
Enhanced Recovery after Kidney Transplantation Regardless of Donor Organ Source
BACKGROUND: Enhanced recovery after kidney transplantation is a desired outcome with potential value-enhancing benefits of reduced length of stay (LOS), costs, and risk of nosocomial…2018 American Transplant Congress
Despite the Growing Impact of the American Opioid Epidemic on Organ Donation, a Small Percentage of Drug Intoxication Deaths Result in Organ Donation
Purpose: This study seeks to understand the regional variation in donations after drug overdose (DO) and quantify the proportion of DO deaths that go on…2018 American Transplant Congress
How the Spouses (Husbands) of Living Kidney Donors View Kidney Donation: A Grounded Theory Study
Division of Nursing, University of Mount Olive, Mount Olive, NC.
The purpose of this study was to explore the question: What is the process of experiencing living kidney transplant by the spouse of a living…
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