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Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Costs Associated with Induction Therapy for Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

    N. M. Rodig1, H. Pizzo2, D. Levy Erez3, T. Richardson4, M. Somers1

    1Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 3Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 4Children's Hospital Association, Lenexa, KS

    *Purpose: Choice of induction agent for pediatric kidney transplantation (KTx) is often based upon patient characteristics and center practice; costs associated with this choice have…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Quantification of Center Aggressiveness in Accepting Sub-Optimal Kidney Donations from Deceased Donors in the US

    T. P. Chiang1, M. Eagleson1, A. Massie1, M. Krach1, D. Segev1, J. Garonzik Wang2

    1Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

    *Purpose: Understanding center-level differences in usage of marginal deceased-donor kidneys (suboptimal kidneys, SOK) can help centers increase their deceased-donor transplant rate (DDKT), and to direct…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Patient and Provider Perspectives on Telehealth Clinic Visits Precipitated by the Covid-19 Viral Pandemic

    L. Adamski1, C. Alvarez1, M. Patterson2, C. Shen3, G. Kaur3, F. K. Butt3

    1Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 2University of South Carolina, Greenville, SC, 3Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

    *Purpose: The transplant community had to adjust to a new way of practicing medicine during the COVID-19 viral pandemic. Our transplant center quickly adapted to…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Temporal Trends of Optn Hope Act Variance Participation

    A. Wilk1, M. Green2, C. Marsh3, N. Theodoropoulos4, R. Formica5, N. Turgeon6, A. Fox7, A. Wilhelm1, D. Klassen1

    1UNOS, Richmond, VA, 2UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 3Scripps Clinic & Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA, 4UMass Medical, Worcester, MA, 5Yale, New Haven, CT, 6UT Health Austin, Austin, TX, 7CUIMC/Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

    *Purpose: The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) created a research variance allowing for transplantation of HIV+ donor kidneys and livers into HIV+ recipients after…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Liver Transplant Centers

    S. Nargiso, L. Sher, V. Tristan

    Keck Medical Center at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Care for the liver transplant (LT) recipient requires expertise and consistency. Due to the rotation of trainees and the emphasis on surgical experience for…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Early Impact of the Mission Act on Utilization of Veterans Affairs Transplant Centers

    J. C. Walker1, C. Roumie2, I. D. Feurer3, R. Forbes4

    1General Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Nashville, TN, 2Internal Medicine, VUMC, Nashville, TN, 3Surgery and Biostatistics, VUMC, Nashville, TN, 4VUMC, Nashville, TN

    *Purpose: The Veterans Affairs (VA) Maintaining Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act of 2018 was implemented in 2019 to increase veteran access to…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Kidney Allocation Change on Low Volume Kidney Transplant Centers

    S. Nagaraju1, S. Vaishnav1, S. A. Deslich2, S. Hanna1, A. Jones3, J. B. Africa1

    1Renal Transplant, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV, 2Research Associate Senior, Health Services & Outcomes Rsc, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV, 3Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV

    *Purpose: Effective March 15, 2021, the OPTN launched a new policy for matching kidney and pancreas transplant candidates with organs from deceased donors. The new…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Thromboelastography in Liver Transplantation: A Target Group

    A. Mohamed1, T. Kitajima1, J. Cui1, S. Angappan2, K. Delvecchio1, T. Shamaa1, T. Ivanics3, S. Shimada1, M. Rizzari1, K. Collins1, A. Yoshida1, M. Abouljoud1, J. El-Bashir2, S. Nagai1

    1Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI, 2Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, 3Surgery, Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI

    *Purpose: Liver dysfunction results in derangement of hemostasis and thrombosis. Thromboelastography (TEG) has emerged as a tool to guide resuscitative efforts. However, its utilization and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Low-Quality Kidney Allograft Use in Kidney Transplantation is Associated with a Prolonged Post-Transplant Length of Stay

    J. A. Kahla1, C. R. Goff1, J. A. Goss2, A. A. Rana2

    1Department of Student Affairs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Michael E DeBakey Department of General Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of low-quality kidney allografts on recipient hospital length of stay following transplant using five…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Technical Report to Increased Utilization of Injured Kidneys: CT Scan to Evaluate Organ and Reduce Discard

    V. E. Whittaker

    Surgery, Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY

    *Purpose: To reduce discard of injured kidneys with parenchymal injury or perinephric hematoma . Young donors with good function but injury are at high risk…
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