2021 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Pre-Procurement Donor Liver Biopsy in Donation-after-circulatory-Death Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Careful selection of suitable DCD donor livers is critical to obtain optimal transplant outcomes. In order to identify potentially suitable livers prior to DCD…2021 American Transplant Congress
Center Cost is Not a Barrier to Aggressive Utilization of DCD Livers
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: Only 7% of livers transplanted in 2018 were from deceased from cardiac death (DCD) donors and only a minority of transplant centers aggressively utilize…2021 American Transplant Congress
Assessing the Impact of the New Liver Allocation Policy on Transplant Center and Organ Procurement Organization Logistics
*Purpose: In February 2020, a new policy for liver allocation was instituted in an effort to reduce geographic disparity in median MELD at transplant. To…2021 American Transplant Congress
Hospital-Level Metrics and Interventions to Increase Deceased Organ Donation: A Systematic Review
*Purpose: The shortage of transplantable organs available for the ever-growing transplant waiting list is well-described. Efforts to ameliorate this have predominantly focused on improving processes…2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Recipients Who Had Covid-19 Prior to Transplant: A Single-center Experience
New York Presbyterian / Weill Cornell, New York, NY
*Purpose: In the early recovery phase after the initial surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, a question emerged in the context of resuming transplant activity: should…2021 American Transplant Congress
Public Perceptions of Presumed Consent for Organ Donation in Canada: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Public Comments from News Articles
*Purpose: In 2019, two Canadian provinces (Alberta and Nova Scotia) became the first jurisdictions in North America to pass presumed consent legislation to increase deceased…2021 American Transplant Congress
Centers Avoided 67% of Kidney Offers by Participating in the OPTN’s Multifactorial Offer Filter Pilot Project
Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Evaluate if multifactorial filters can reduce unwanted kidney offers to centers, thereby reducing administrative burden and getting to the accepting candidate quicker.*Methods: 40 centers…2021 American Transplant Congress
Patient Perspective of the Implementation of Virtual Medicine in a Post-kidney Transplant Clinic
*Purpose: COVID-19 dramatically altered the model of health care delivery for transplant recipients, necessitating the routine use of virtual medicine. This resulted in consequences for…2021 American Transplant Congress
Automated Electronic Donor Referrals Have Increased Transplantation
Transplant Connect, Santa Monica, CA
*Purpose: It is well understood and supported by previous studies that costly inefficiencies exist in the current phone-based process by which hospitals refer potential donors…2021 American Transplant Congress
Needs of People with Kidney Transplantation During the Covid 19 Pandemic and Its Confinement, and the Role of Communication Technologies Through the “Patient Experience”
*Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare services have focused on the care of acute processes and there is a risk of not meeting the needs…
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