Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Use of MELD Exception Points in Patients With Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Metastases: Variable Use and Proposed Criterion for Approval
Y. Nobel,¹ D. Goldberg.^2,3,4
¹Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ³Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Purpose: Most patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have preserved hepatic synthetic function, and their providers may seek increased waitlist priority via MELD exception points.…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Renal Retransplantation in Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant Recipients
W. Shields, J. Zimmerman, P. Mohan, F. Nooh, D. Hickey.
National Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation Unit, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Introduction:Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplantation(SPK) is standard of care in selected patients with end stage renal failure secondary to diabetes mellitus. There is little literature examining…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Does Higher Cost Improve Outcome in Pediatric Liver Transplantation?
J. Minneman, J. Grijalva, S. Rangel, H. Kim, K. Vakili.
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…