Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

2016 American Transplant Congress
National Trends in Liver Discards: The Weekend Effect.
D. Carpenter,¹ S. Mohan,² K. Halazun,³ E. Verna,⁵ M. Chiles,² G. Charak,¹ L. Ratner.⁴
¹Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ²Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ³Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York City, NY; ⁴Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ⁵Department of Medicine, Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY.
Overall organ discard rates have increased over the last decade. Given the current organ shortage, understanding factors that contribute to the discard of livers is…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Managing the Kidney Waiting List: Pride and Prejudice.
F. Smith,¹ C. Sheehan,¹ A. Farney,¹ J. Rogers,¹ G. Orlando,¹ A. Reeves-Daniel,² A. Palanisamy,² R. Stratta.¹
¹Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ²Internal Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
Management of the kidney waiting list (WL) is an essential and dynamic aspect of the pretransplant process; however, it remains under-studied and underappreciated. The study…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Microfluidic Device for Purification of Pancreatic Islet Preparations.
W. Varhue,¹ L. Langman,² D. Bowers,³ S. Peirce-Cottler,³ N. Swami,¹ K. Brayman.²
¹Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ²Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ³Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Purpose: Demonstrate that novel continuous flow microfluidic designs can be utilized to remove contaminating acinar tissue and sort the purified islets, based on size and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Web-Based Survey of Academic Transplant Nephrologists in the U.S. on Relative Value Unit (RVU)-Based Productivity Assessment and Financial Compensation.
W. Chon,¹ M. Pavlakis,³ P. Witkowski,⁴ L.-X. Chen,¹ P. Kadambi.²
¹Medicine (Nephrology), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²Medicine (Nephrology), Banner University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ; ³Medicine (Nephrology), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; ⁴Surgery (Transplant), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Background: It is unknown how productivity of transplant nephrologists in the U.S. is measured. Methods: We conducted a web-based survey to ascertain the current RVU…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Quality Improvement Initiative to Provide Comprehensive Pharmacy Services to Kidney Transplant Patients at a Small Transplant Center.
J. Dickson,¹ W. Vincent III,¹ L. Wu,² J. Thurman,¹ J. Francis,³ M. Nuhn.⁴
¹Pharmacy, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA; ²Northeastern University, Boston, MA; ³Renal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA; ⁴Transplant Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Purpose: Previously, kidney transplant pharmacy services at our institution were limited to medication profile review before and after transplant surgery. Following an OPTN accreditation site…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Specialized Community Pharmacists' Role in Care Transitions for Transplant Patients.
D. Nguyen,^1,2 N. Rickles,² C. Rogers,³ K. Richards,³ J. Thomas,¹ A. Loring,¹ H. Kirkham,¹ M. Kang,¹ K. Poliskey.¹
¹Pharmacy, Walgreens Co., Boston, MA; ²Pharmacy, Northeastern University School of Pharmacy, Boston, MA; ³Pharmacy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Purpose:In 2004, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) bylaws recognized pharmacists as an essential part of the patient care team. Recently, the demand for…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Big Data Predictive Solution to Optimize Kidney Transplant Outcome and Resource Utilization.
T. Srinivas, D. Northrup, P. Mauldin, D. Taber, Z. Su, J. Zhang, M. Daniels, W. Moran.
MUSC, Charleston.
Objective: Transplant (Tx) programs often use data in reaction to regulation vs. optimizing outcomes through data driven clinical care. Tx specific issues can detract from…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Implementation of Telehealth Is Associated with Improved Timeliness of Kidney Transplant Waitlist Evaluation at a VA Center.
R. Forbes,^1,2 K. Kummerow Broman,^1,2 T. Johnson,² D. Rybacki,² M. Hagemann,² A. Hannah-Gillis,² I. Feurer,¹ D. Hale.^1,2
¹TN Valley HS, Nashville, TN; ²Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
Background: The VA National Transplant Program is challenged to provide timely kidney transplant evaluation for Veterans nationwide. Efforts to improve access have included implementing a…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Oldest and Coldest in Kidney Paired Donation: Experience of the National Kidney Registry.
N. Nassiri,¹ L. Kwan,¹ J. Sinacore,² J. Veale.¹
¹Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ²National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate renal allograft efficacy and survivability in elderly donors and prolonged cold ischemia time (CIT).METHODS: 1,402 living donor kidney transplants from 02/2008-06/2015 recorded…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Using Predictive Modeling to Manage Cardiovascular Risk and Improve Kidney Transplant Outcomes.
W. Moran, J. Zhang, Z. Su, D. Taber, P. Mauldin, T. Srinivas.
MUSC, Charleston.
Objective: We aimed to improve post-kidney transplant (tx) outcomes through predictive analytics and natural language processing (NLP) integrated into the electronic health record (EHR). The…