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Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    A Payer’s Perspective: The Cost of Hemodialysis versus Living Donor Kidney Transplant for Kidney Failure Patients in Nigeria

    J. Lang1, I. James2, D. Da Rocha Afodu1, C. G. Okwuonu3, O. Ekwenna1

    1University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, 2Surgical Specialists of Charlotte, Matthews, NC, 3Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology Unit, Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria

    *Purpose: To primarily quantify the costs of LDKT and HD in Nigeria from a ‘payer’s perspective’ and secondarily inform future cost-effectiveness studies to guide health…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    A Data-Driven Approach to Defining the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Liver Transplantation

    M. D. Bailey, E. L. Godfrey, W. C. Frankel, A. Rana

    Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: Patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) who undergo liver transplantation experience significant survival benefit, with a 1-year survival rate after liver transplantation of 91%.…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Safely Increasing the Number of Renal Transplants Performed in a Small Center Through the Use of Acute Kidney Injury Donors

    S. Batie1, K. Eid2, K. Gabrys3, F. Barrantes3, B. Trujillo2, H. Kerr2

    1Presbyterian Healthcare Services, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Albuquerque, NM, 3Renal Medicine Associates, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Albuquerque, NM

    *Purpose: New Mexico is medically underserved state with a significant end-stage renal disease population. This study aims to further demonstrate the safety of utilizing AKI…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    A Machine-Learning Approach for Estimating Likelihood of Transplant Benefit from Older-Donor Kidneys

    T. Pruett1, P. Martin2, D. Gupta3

    1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2University of Texas, Austin, TX, 3McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin, TX

    *Purpose: There is a shortage of transplantable kidneys in the US. Yet, the discard rate among older donors (55+) is approx. 38% per year. The…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Has Every Possible Life Been Saved?: Rummaging Through the Discard Heap

    A. L. Friedman, E. Marquez

    LiveOnNY, NY, NY

    *Purpose: To determine the reasons that deceased donor organs were allocated but not transplanted (TXP) in a large organ procurement organization (OPO).*Methods: All organs allocated…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Paired Exchange Living Donor Liver Transplantation Using Compatible Pairs- U.S. Single Center Experience

    T. Klair, D. Fritze, E. Thomas, G. Abrahamian, G. Halff, K. Speeg, F. Cigarroa

    University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

    *Purpose: ABO and size incompatibility are common reasons for non-acceptance of otherwise suitable donors in Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT). Paired exchange LDLT has been…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Facebunk: Does Social Media Have a Positive Impact on Living Kidney Donation

    E. K. Venniro1, R. Kashyap2, J. G. Taylor1

    1Nephrology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 2Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    *Purpose: More kidney transplant recipients are reaching out beyond their immediate contacts in order to find potential living donors. In addition, transplant centers and organizations…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Traveling For Transplant: A Comparison of Singly Listed, Multiply Listed, and Non-Citizen Non-Resident Liver Transplant Candidates

    H. J. Braun1, D. Amara1, A. Shui1, C. Huang1, P. G. Stock1, R. Hirose1, F. L. Delmonico2, N. L. Ascher1

    1University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: Multiply listed (ML) and non-citizen non-resident (NCNR) patients comprise approximately 8% of the liver transplant (LT) waitlist (WL) and approximately 4% of LT recipients.…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Relative Transplant Center Organ Volumes are Associated with Patient and Graft Survival

    J. T. Adler, T. C. Tsai, S. K. Malek, S. G. Tullius, J. S. Weissman

    Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: Transplant programs differ in relative volume of kidney and liver transplants. While there is a known volume-outcome relationship for organ-specific transplantation at an institutional…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Automated Electronic Donor Referrals Have Increased Donation

    J. Piano

    Transplant Connect, Santa Monica, CA

    *Purpose: It is broadly understood and supported by previous studies that disruptive inefficiencies exist in the hospital to Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) donor referral process,…
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