2015 American Transplant Congress
Does Higher Cost Improve Outcome in Pediatric Liver Transplantation?
Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Examine the relationship between transplant-related total cost and 1-year graft failure and patient mortality rate for liver transplantation at freestanding children's hospitals.Using the Pediatric Health…2015 American Transplant Congress
Health Utilities in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
Pediatrics, Northwestern U, Chicago.
Health Utilities (HU) are preference based measures of health states required for cost effectiveness studies. We measured HU and health related quality of life (HRQOL)…2015 American Transplant Congress
Successful Consolidation of Two Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Programs
Renal & Pancreas Transplant, Barnabas Health, Livingston.
The decision to consolidate two kidney/pancreas transplant programs within the same healthcare system and within a 10 mile radius, was a pro-active approach in an…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Critical Illness and Pre-Transplant Hospitalization on Cost of Liver Transplantation
Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
In order to understand the cost impact of hospitalization and ICU admission immediately prior to liver transplantation (LT), we obtained all hospital costs associated with…2015 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Post-Graduate Year 2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency Program at an Academic Medical Center
Department of Pharmacy, University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, AL.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital performs a high volume of solid organ transplants each year, allowing for residents and students from many…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Single Center Study of the Implementation Costs of the New Kidney Allocation System
Transplantation, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.
Background: Changes to the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) required transplant programs to utilize resources to prepare for its implementation. A complex strategy was developed which…2015 American Transplant Congress
Early Hospital Readmissions After Kidney Transplantation
Transplantation, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Early rehospitalization after kidney transplantation is common and is considered a quality metric. Few studies have examined preventability or specific transplant/discharge factors associated with early…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pharmacoepidemiology of Cytomegalovirus Prophylaxis in a Large Multicenter Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO.
Background: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) prophylaxis or preemptive treatment are recommended for seronegative recipients of kidneys from seropositive donors (D+/R-) and seropositive patients (R+), but not D-/R-…2015 American Transplant Congress
Regional Variations: Liver Transplant Tourism Within the US
Aim: Given the current geographic disparities in average MELD scores at liver transplantation (OLT), there is increasing interest in patients who travel for OLT and…2015 American Transplant Congress
Maximizing Peri-Operative Value-Based Care in Kidney Transplant Induction
1Pharmacy, MUSC, Charleston, SC; 2Surgery, MUSC, Charleston, SC; 3Nephrology, MUSC, Charleston, SC.
Due to the dwindling reimbursement for kidney transplants (KTx), there must be a continuous effort to provide the best value-based care. The purpose of this…
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