Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Care of International Living Kidney Donor Candidates in the U.S.: A Survey of Contemporary Experience, Practice & Challenges
K. Lentine¹, M. Henderson², S. Rasmussen², E. Shukhman³, J. Hunt⁴, F. Al Ammary², V. Kumar⁵, D. Lapointe-Rudow⁴, H. Schaefer⁶, M. Cooper⁷, R. Hays⁸, M. Dunbar-Forrest⁹, A. Nishio-Lucar¹⁰, D. Mandelbrot⁸
¹Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ³Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁵Univ Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, ⁷Georgetown, Washington, DC, ⁸Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁰Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: The evaluation and care of non-U.S. citizen, non-U.S. residents who wish to come to the U.S. to serve as living kidney donors (LKD) can…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Listening to the Patients Voice for Developing Transplant Education
S. Brown, H. Li, D. Tsapepas
Renal Transplant, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Successful outcomes following transplantation (Tx) require a thorough understanding of the Tx process, a close partnership between the patient and transplant center, and life-long…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Improving the Organ Donation Process: Updated
J. Yeh, M. P. Jarrett, L. Teperman
Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, NY
*Purpose: Due to the complexity of care that each ICU patient requires, the bedside nurse may miss the clinical trigger that would indicate an appropriate…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Case Scheduling on Hospital Cost and Length of Stay in Living Donor Kidney Recipients
J. Yu¹, L. A. Dageforde², M. B. Doyle¹, A. S. Khan¹, W. C. Chapman¹, Y. Lin¹, S. Shenoy¹, T. Alhamad³, T. A. Horwedel⁴, J. R. Wellen¹
¹Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ²Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ⁴Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: In an effort to optimize patient care and cost efficiency, we investigated if living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) recipients incurred any difference in hospital…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Dialysis Facility Provider Transplant Knowledge after a Randomized Multilevel Intervention to Increase Kidney Transplant Referral and Evaluation in the Southeast
K. Maroney¹, R. Hamoda¹, L. McPherson¹, A. Cruz², S. Pastan¹, L. Plantinga¹, S. Paul¹, M. Ellis³, D. DuBay⁴, A. Reeves-Daniel⁵, R. Detwiler⁶, E. Hartmann⁷, H. Jones⁸, B. Thrasher⁹, C. Zayas¹⁰, L. Mulloy¹⁰, S. Wright¹¹, R. Patzer¹
¹Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²IPRO Network of the South Atlantic, Raleigh, NC, ³Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁴Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁵Wake Forest Health Transplant Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁶UNC Center for Transplantation, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁷Piedmont Transplant Institute, Atlanta, GA, ⁸Vidant Medical Center Transplant Services, Greenville, NC, ⁹Carolinas Transplant Center, Charlotte, NC, ¹⁰Augusta University, Augusta, GA, ¹¹IPRO Network of the South Atlantic, Morrisville, NC
*Purpose: Dialysis facility provider kidney transplantation (KTx) knowledge influences patient transplant access. The Reducing Disparities in Access to kidNey Transplantation (RaDIANT) Regional Study is a…
2019 American Transplant Congress
How Well Do Kidney Transplant Patients Understand Their Medications and Does Real-Time Assessment of Knowledge Improve Retention of Information?
B. Clark¹, B. Sirandas¹, T. Larson², A. Carlson¹, C. Truax¹, D. D. Ramirez¹, L. Smith¹, I. Hall¹
¹University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the impact that early formal assessment and reteaching have on patient medication knowledge after renal transplant.*Methods: This was a…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Positive Relationship between Transplant Center Volume and Utilization of Hard to Place Liver Allografts after Late Declines
J. Knox,¹ H. Braun,¹ S. Syeed,¹ K. Halazun,² G. Roll.¹
¹Department of Transplant Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ²Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY.
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
J. Dann, W. Ally, M. Bradley, J. Geyston, A. Agarwal.
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
M. Groveman,¹ M. Perry,² I. Berman,² N. Benavides,¹ A. Friedman.¹
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
S. Sandal, N. Dendukuri, S. Wang, E. Guadagno, T. Ekmekjian, A. Alam.
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…