Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Five-Year Outcomes After Transplantation of Kidneys from Deceased Donors with Acute Kidney Injury.
J. Latona,¹ A. Shah,^1,2 A. Frank,^1,2 W. Maley,^1,2 C. Doria,^1,2 C. Ramirez.^1,2
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; ²Kidney Transplant Program, Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA
Background: Kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury (AKI) are often discarded due to a perceived higher risk of poor graft function. Kidney Donor…
2017 American Transplant Congress
National Variation in Liver Transplant Immunosuppression in the U.S..
M. Nazzal,¹ R. Ouseph,¹ M. Schnitzler,¹ Z. Zhang,¹ D. Axelrod,² D. Segev,³ A. Naik,⁴ H. Randall,¹ D. Brennan,⁵ B. Kasiske,⁶ G. Hess,⁷ T. Alhamad,⁵ K. Lentine.¹
¹St Louis Univ, St Louis; ²E Carolina Univ, Greenville; ³Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; ⁴U Michigan, Ann Arbor; ⁵Washington Univ, St Louis; ⁶SRTR, Minneapolis; ⁷Symphony Health, Philadelphia
Variation in immunosuppression (ISx) for liver transplant (LTx) across US programs has not been described. We examined a novel database integrating national registry and pharmacy…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Dialysis Facility Providers' Awareness of Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation.
J. Kim, M. Basu, L. Plantinga, C. Escoffery, S. Pastan, R. Patzer.
Emory University, Atlanta
Background Racial disparities persist in access to kidney transplant (KTx) in the US, where African Americans (AAs) have lower rates of waitlisting than whites. Despite…
2017 American Transplant Congress
A Brief Frailty Assessment and Outcomes Among Candidates for Liver Transplantation.
M. Serper, K. Dwinnells, T. Bittermann, K. Olthoff.
Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Introduction: As frailty correlates with post-transplant outcomes, brief frailty measures are needed in clinical practice to appropriately risk stratify LT candidates. We used an abbreviated…
2017 American Transplant Congress
An OPO Offer Acceptance Report for Hard-to-Place Kidneys.
A. Wey, N. Salkowski, B. Kasiske, A. Israni, J. Snyder.
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN
Transplant program offer acceptance behavior varies substantially for kidneys after 100 previous offers (i.e., “hard-to-place offers”). An organ procurement organization (OPO) offer acceptance report could…
2017 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of the Kidney Allocation System on Outcomes for Kidneys with KDPI > 85%.
A. Perry,¹ J. Sageshima,¹ C. Santhanakrishnan,¹ J. McVicar,¹ C. Troppmann,¹ A. De Mattos,² J. Woloszyn,¹ R. Perez.¹
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA; ²Division of Transplant Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA
Single center outcomes were examined to assess the impact of the implementation of the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) on outcomes for kidneys with KDPI >85%.Methods:…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Retroactive Application of a New Risk Index for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (LKDPI) to Renal Transplants in Veracruz, Mexico.
G. Martinez-Mier,^1,2 E. Soto-Miranda,¹ S. Avila-Pardo,² L. Budar-Fernandez,¹ M. Mendez-Lopez,¹ P. Moreno-Ley,¹ E. Aguilar-Sandoval,¹ G. Coello-Torres,³ F. Diaz-Trueba.³
¹Organ Transplantation, IMSS UMAE HE 14, Veracruz, Mexico; ²Organ Transplantation, HRAEV, Veracruz, Mexico; ³Research, IMSS UMAE HE 14, Veracruz, Mexico
Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) was designed to estimate the graft loss risk in deceased donor transplants. Recently, the Epidemiology Research Group for Organ Transplantation…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Using Scheduled Commercial Flights for Transport of Liver for Transplant.
V. Gupta,¹ A. Chandra,¹ M. Singh,¹ V. Gupta,¹ S. Kumar,¹ P. Joshi,¹ P. Sharma,² H. Hasan,³ P. Srivastava,⁴ M. Khan,¹ Z. Arshad,¹ R. Kant.¹
¹King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; ²Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Office, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; ³Traffic Directorate, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; ⁴Airport Director, Amausi Airport, Airports Authority of India, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Transport of liver procured from a brain dead donor (BDD) to the receiving hospital by chartered private flight (PF) is a costly endeavour. Also the…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Vendor to Center in 0-60: A Cost-Effective Blueprint for Creating an In-House On-Call System for Abdominal Organ Offers.
J. Davenport, D. Cassidy, A. Hauser, A. Milling, K. Driggers, H. Crego, J. Anderson, L. Curry, P. Baliga, N. Pilch, D. Dubay.
Transplant, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Introduction: Our center decided to return to an in-house nurse coordinator on-call program 7/2016 after using a vendor from 11/2012 to 7/2016 for organ allocation.…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Healthcare Resource Utilization for Patients with Donor-Specific Antibodies Post-Kidney Transplantation.
B. Ho,¹ H. Bhagat,² E. Lee,^2,3 K. Atiemo,¹ A. Daud,¹ R. Kang,¹ S. Montag,^1,4 L. Zhao,^1,4 J. Schwartz,² D. Ladner.¹
¹Northwestern University Transplant and Outcomes Research Collaborative (NUTORC), Chicago; ²Astellas Pharma Global Development, Northbrook; ³Now with UCB, Atlanta; ⁴Dept of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago
Formation of de novo donor-specific antibodies (dnDSA) against human leukocyte antigens (HLA) contributes to inferior kidney transplant (KT) outcomes. No data exist on healthcare resource…