Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

2016 American Transplant Congress
One-Year Graft Loss Risk in Kidney Transplants – A Big Data Approach.
T. Srinivas, D. Taber, J. Zhang, Z. Su, J. Marsden, A. Tripathi, W. Moran, P. Mauldin.
MUSC, Charleston, SC; IBM Corp., Armonk.
Background Predictive models using national data are limited by lack of evolving patient level data. A Big Data approach using both static and dynamic variables…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Older Patients Reliably Participate in Automated Living Donor Follow Up Rather Than Avoiding This New Technology.
H. Braun, M. Parente, R. Hirose, G. Roll.
Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Introduction: UCSF implemented automated living donor follow up to increase access to patients, improve communication, efficiency of data collection, and UNOS compliance. Using a modified…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Post-Transplant Vaccine Initiative Collaboration (VIC) in a Multidisciplinary, Transplant Ambulatory Setting.
G. Malat,⁴ S. DiLollo,¹ D. Lee,² A. Sharma,³ T. Bias,² M. Harhay,³ K. Ranganna,³ A. Doyle.³
¹Colonia Natural Pharmacy, Colonia; ²Medicine/Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia.
Introduction We describe the implementation of a vaccine initiative in an ambulatory transplant setting.Methods In 2014, Hahnemann University Hospital (HUH) and Colonia Natural Pharmacy transplant…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Young Recipients Receiving Kidneys from Older Donors Have Poorer Allograft Outcomes.
A. Wardle, M. Willicombe, D. Goodall, A. McLean, D. Taube.
Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Introduction: An increasing number of marginal donors are being used in order to expand the donor pool. Age is one of the major criteria in…
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…