2022 American Transplant Congress
Moral Distress Among Palliative Care and Transplant Clinicians in the Context of Transplant Care
1Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2REACH Lab, Tufts University, Medford, MA
*Purpose: Despite benefits of palliative care referrals and early advance care planning for patients with end-stage organ disease and recipients experiencing graft failure, few patients…2022 American Transplant Congress
Barriers to Completing the Transplant Evaluation Process: A Mixed-Methods Study
*Purpose: Little is known about patient-reported factors affecting patients’ access to the kidney transplant waitlist after starting evaluation. We qualitatively assessed patients’ perceived barriers to…2022 American Transplant Congress
Cognitive Bias in Transplant Surgery: A Qualitative Study of Transplant Clinicians in the United States
*Purpose: Clinicians’ judgments about patients’ social support often affect whether patients are listed for transplantation. Decision-making is thought to be based on two systems of…2022 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Culturally Sensitive Chatbot to Inform Living Donor Candidates of African Ancestry About Apol1 Genetic Testing
*Purpose: Living kidney donor candidates of African ancestry are increasingly asked to undergo Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) genetic testing to better understand their risk of kidney…2022 American Transplant Congress
Patient Definitions of Transplant Success of Upper Extremity VCA
*Purpose: Little is known about how to measure "success" of upper extremity (UE) vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) given its relative novelty and low frequency. While…2022 American Transplant Congress
Consent to Organ Offers from Public Health Service Increased Risk Donors Decreases Time to Transplant and Waitlist Mortality
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: The Public Health Service Increased Risk designation identified organ donors at increased risk of transmitting hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus. Despite…2022 American Transplant Congress
Survey of Current Transplant Center Practices Regarding Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates in the United States
*Purpose: We surveyed current policies of transplant centers regarding a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and rationales for or against a mandate policy.*Methods: An electronic survey was…2022 American Transplant Congress
Phenotypes of Non-Citizen Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States by Machine Learning Consensus Clustering
*Purpose: Health care policies and coverage for non-US citizens vary significantly across the country. Kidney transplant outcomes in non-US citizens are at par or better…2022 American Transplant Congress
The Association of Pre-Transplant Dialysis Time and the Survival Benefit of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2University of Chicago, Hinsdale, IL
*Purpose: The US Kidney Allocation System (KAS) allows for deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) candidates not yet on dialysis to accrue waiting time points by…2022 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Self-Report of Length of Sobriety is Not Significantly Related to Early Return to Alcohol Use Post Transplant
1Psychiatry, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, 2The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Many transplant centers in the United States require six months of abstinence from alcohol prior to liver transplant. Recently, there has been an increased…
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