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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Too Female" for Liver Transplantation. 
  • A Comprehensive Review of Outcome Predictors in Low MELD Patients. 
  • A UNOS perspective on donor liver allocation. United Network for Organ Sharing. 
  • A change of heart: Preliminary results of the US 2018 adult heart allocation revision. 
  • A randomized study would answer the question. 
  • A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States. 
  • A smoking cessation and pain management program for cancer survivors. 
  • Addition of adult-to-adult living donation to liver transplant programs improves survival but at an increased cost. 
  • Addressing sex-based disparities in solid organ transplantation in the United States - a conference report. 
  • Age and comorbidities are effect modifiers of gender disparities in renal transplantation. 
  • Altruism, incentives, and organ donation: attitudes of the transplant community. 
  • Ambulatory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to lung transplantation: walking while waiting. 
  • American Association for Thoracic Surgery/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation guidelines on selected topics in mechanical circulatory support. 
  • Amiodarone use in patients listed for heart transplant is associated with increased 1-year post-transplant mortality. 
  • An acute change in lung allocation score and survival after lung transplantation: a cohort study. 
  • An examination of factors predicting prioritization for liver transplantation. 
  • An observation unit may help improve an institution's Press Ganey satisfaction score. 
  • Are patients with longer emergency department wait times less likely to consent to research? 
  • Assessment of Heart Transplant Waitlist Time and Pre- and Post-transplant Failure: A Mixed Methods Approach. 
  • Association Between Liver Transplant Wait-list Mortality and Frailty Based on Body Mass Index. 
  • Association between the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and patient wait times and travel distance for chemotherapy. 
  • Association of Frailty and Sex With Wait List Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates in the Multicenter Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study. 
  • Association of Race and Ethnicity With Live Donor Kidney Transplantation in the United States From 1995 to 2014. 
  • Association of Serious Fall Injuries among United States End Stage Kidney Disease Patients with Access to Kidney Transplantation. 
  • Atrial septostomy as a bridge to lung transplantation in patients with severe pulmonary hypertension. 
  • Barriers to cardiac transplantation in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: the Washington, DC, Dilated Cardiomyopathy Study. 
  • Baseline 6-min walk distance predicts survival in lung transplant candidates. 
  • Best practices in the Veterans Health Administration's MOVE! Weight management program. 
  • Beyond utilitarianism: a method for analyzing competing ethical principles in a decision analysis of liver transplantation. 
  • Biases in the reporting of hepatocellular carcinoma tumor sizes on the liver transplant waiting list. 
  • Biofeedback as Prophylaxis for Pediatric Migraine: A Meta-analysis. 
  • Bridging Locoregional Therapy Prolongs Survival in Patients Listed for Liver Transplant with Hepatocellular Carcinoma. 
  • Cardiac transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Case 23-2005: a man with a mass in the liver. 
  • Challenging choices: liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • Changes in United States heart allocation: A community energized to improve policy. 
  • Changes in Use of Left Ventricular Assist Devices as Bridge to Transplantation With New Heart Allocation Policy. 
  • Changes in frailty are associated with waitlist mortality in patients with cirrhosis. 
  • Changing Demographics, Temporal Trends in Waitlist, and Posttransplant Outcomes After Heart Transplantation in the United States: Analysis of the UNOS Database 1991-2019. 
  • Characteristics of liver transplant candidates delisted following recompensation and predictors of such delisting in alcohol-related liver disease: a case-control study. 
  • Clinic visit and waiting: patient education and satisfaction. 
  • Clinical outcomes and healthcare expenditures in the real world with left ventricular assist devices - The CLEAR-LVAD study. 
  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for youth anxiety: An effectiveness evaluation in community practice. 
  • Collaborative strategies to reduce mortality and morbidity in patients with chronic intestinal failure including those who are referred for small bowel transplantation. 
  • Comparison of patient flow and provider efficiency of two delivery strategies for HPV-based cervical cancer screening in Western Kenya: a time and motion study. 
  • Concomitant Cutaneous Langerhans Cell Hystiocytosis and Leukemia Cutis. 
  • Consensus conference report: maximizing use of organs recovered from the cadaver donor: cardiac recommendations, March 28-29, 2001, Crystal City, Va. 
  • Decline of Increased Risk Donor Offers on Waitlist Survival in Heart Transplantation. 
  • Decreasing Wait List Mortality for Heart Transplantation in the Eurotransplant Network. 
  • Delaying Elective Surgery in Geriatric Patients: An Opportunity for Preoperative Optimization. 
  • Depression in primary caregivers of patients listed for liver or kidney transplantation. 
  • Development and psychometric properties of the Pulmonary-specific Quality-of-Life Scale in lung transplant patients. 
  • Differences in Phenotypes and Liver Transplantation Outcomes by Age Group in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. 
  • Differences in access to kidney transplantation between Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites by geographic location in the United States. 
  • Differences in the treatment of myocardial infarction between the United States and Canada. A survey of physicians in the GUSTO trial. 
  • Differential outcomes with early and late repeat transplantation in the era of the lung allocation score. 
  • Disability in patients with end-stage liver disease: Results from the functional assessment in liver transplantation study. 
  • Disparities in liver transplantation before and after introduction of the MELD score. 
  • Does Survival on the Heart Transplant Waiting List Depend on the Underlying Heart Disease? 
  • Does competition for transplantable hearts encourage 'gaming' of the waiting list? 
  • Economic evaluation of access to musculoskeletal care: the case of waiting for total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Editorial Commentary: Determining the cost-effectiveness of mechanical circulatory support. 
  • Effect of cognitive-behavioral couple therapy for PTSD: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effect of sensitization in US heart transplant recipients bridged with a ventricular assist device: update in a modern cohort. 
  • Effects of a telephone-based psychosocial intervention for patients awaiting lung transplantation. 
  • Effects of aerobic exercise on cognitive and psychosocial functioning in patients with mild hypertension. 
  • Emotional distress and quality of life in caregivers of patients awaiting lung transplant. 
  • Equalizing MELD Scores Over Broad Geographies Is Not the Most Efficacious Way to Allocate a Scarce Resource in a Value-based Environment. 
  • Estimating the length of waits: a description of the period lifetable method and comparison with census and event based methods. 
  • Evaluating the validity of model for end-stage liver disease exception points for hepatocellular carcinoma patients with multiple nodules <2 cm. 
  • Exception-Status Listing: A Critical Pathway to Heart Transplantation for Adults With Congenital Heart Diseases. 
  • Excess mortality on the liver transplant waiting list: unintended policy consequences and Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) inflation. 
  • Exercise and weight loss reduce blood pressure in men and women with mild hypertension: effects on cardiovascular, metabolic, and hemodynamic functioning. 
  • Factors associated with failure to list HIV-positive kidney transplant candidates. 
  • First steps in analysing NHS waiting times: avoiding the 'stationary and closed population' fallacy. 
  • Frailty Associated With Waitlist Mortality Independent of Ascites and Hepatic Encephalopathy in a Multicenter Study. 
  • Frailty and the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury Among Patients With Cirrhosis. 
  • Frequency and predictors of de novo hepatocellular carcinoma in patients awaiting orthotopic liver transplantation during the model for end-stage liver disease era. 
  • General practice orthopaedic outpatient referrals in North Staffordshire. 
  • Geographic favoritism in liver transplantation. 
  • Geospatial Analysis of Organ Transplant Referral Regions. 
  • Group trajectory analysis helps to identify older cancer survivors who benefit from distance-based lifestyle interventions. 
  • Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • Heart Transplantation: An In-Depth Survival Analysis. 
  • Heart transplantation for adults with congenital heart disease: analysis of the United network for organ sharing database. 
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma and model for end-stage liver disease exceptions: the more we understand, the more challenging the allocation gets. 
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence and death following living and deceased donor liver transplantation. 
  • Humoral Reactivity of Renal Transplant-Waitlisted Patients to Cells From GGTA1/CMAH/B4GalNT2, and SLA Class I Knockout Pigs. 
  • Identifying an Optimal Liver Frailty Index Cutoff to Predict Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates. 
  • Impact of Bridge to Transplantation With Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices on Posttransplantation Mortality. 
  • Impact of Covid-19 on kidney transplant and waiting list patients: Lessons from the first wave of the pandemic. 
  • Impact of Obesity on Heart Transplantation Outcomes. 
  • Impact of graft type on outcome in pediatric liver transplantation: a report From Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT). 
  • Impact of recipient body mass index on organ allocation and mortality in orthotopic heart transplantation. 
  • Impact of the 2018 UNOS Heart Transplant Policy Changes on Patient Outcomes. 
  • Impact of the model for end-stage liver disease allocation policy on the use of high-risk organs for liver transplantation. 
  • Implementing advanced access in a family medicine practice: a new paradigm in primary care. 
  • Implications of blood group on lung transplantation rates: A propensity-matched registry analysis. 
  • Implications of declining donor offers with increased risk of disease transmission on waiting list survival in lung transplantation. 
  • Improved contemporary outcomes of liver transplantation for pediatric hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • Improved survival in patients enrolled promptly into remote monitoring following cardiac implantable electronic device implantation. 
  • Improved survival in simultaneous lung-liver recipients and candidates in the modern era of lung allocation. 
  • Improvement in survival associated with adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation. 
  • Increased Calculated Panel Reactive Antigen Is Associated With Increased Waitlist Time and Mortality in Lung Transplantation. 
  • Increased Opportunities for Transplantation for Women in the New Heart Allocation System. 
  • Increased living donor volunteer rates with a formal recipient family education program. 
  • Increasing the United States heart transplant donor pool with donation after circulatory death. 
  • Is Functional Independence Associated With Improved Long-Term Survival After Lung Transplantation? 
  • Is Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Worth the Wait? 
  • Keeping care connected: e-Consultation program improves access to nephrology care. 
  • Kidney transplant candidates' views of the transplant allocation system. 
  • Left main stenosis. 
  • Less dropout from prolonged exposure sessions prescribed at least twice weekly: A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Limited health literacy and adverse outcomes among kidney transplant candidates. 
  • Liver Transplantation Outcomes in a U.S. Multicenter Cohort of 789 Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting Beyond Milan Criteria. 
  • Liver and intestine transplantation in the United States 1998-2007. 
  • Liver and intestine transplantation in the United States, 1997-2006. 
  • Liver transplant recipient survival benefit with living donation in the model for endstage liver disease allocation era. 
  • Local access to subspecialty care influences the chance of receiving a liver transplant. 
  • Long-term effects of exercise on psychological functioning in older men and women. 
  • Long-term outcomes in patients with obesity and renal disease after sleeve gastrectomy. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Marginal cardiac allografts do not have increased primary graft dysfunction in alternate list transplantation. 
  • One Size Does Not Fit All--Regional Variation in the Impact of the Share 35 Liver Allocation Policy. 
  • One question, two answers: do the two most commonly used methods of sampling describe the length of the prospective wait for admission to hospital? 
  • One-and-done: Do left ventricular assist device patients on the transplant list really need frequent right heart catheterization assessments for pulmonary hypertension? 
  • Outcomes in Patients Bridged With Univentricular and Biventricular Devices in the Modern Era of Heart Transplantation. 
  • Outcomes of liver retransplantation in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis. 
  • Outcomes with an alternate list strategy for heart transplantation. 
  • Patient Preferences for Waiting Time and Kidney Quality. 
  • Perspectives on donor lung allocation from both sides of the Atlantic: The United States. 
  • Photodynamic therapy provides local control of cholangiocarcinoma in patients awaiting liver transplantation. 
  • Primum non nocere (first do no harm): symptom worsening and improvement in female assault victims after prolonged exposure for PTSD. 
  • Psychiatric disorder and quality of life in patients awaiting lung transplantation. 
  • Recent History of Serious Fall Injuries and Posttransplant Outcomes Among US Kidney Transplant Recipients. 
  • Reduction of left ventricular hypertrophy after exercise and weight loss in overweight patients with mild hypertension. 
  • Referral and Evaluation for Kidney Transplantation Following Implementation of the 2014 National Kidney Allocation System. 
  • Regional variability in symptom-based MELD exceptions: a response to organ shortage? 
  • Relationship between coping and depression in heart transplant candidates and their spouses. 
  • Reply: Reconsidering Waiting Times in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Is There Any No-Return Point? 
  • Rinse, Wash, Repeat: The Evolution of the UNOS Heart Transplant Allocation System. 
  • Risk assessment for continuous flow left ventricular assist devices: does the destination therapy risk score work? An analysis of over 1,000 patients. 
  • Role of flow cytometry to define unacceptable HLA antigens in lung transplant recipients with HLA-specific antibodies. 
  • Role of patient factors, preferences, and distrust in health care and access to liver transplantation and organ donation. 
  • SRTR center-specific reporting tools: Posttransplant outcomes. 
  • Sex Differences in Mortality Based on United Network for Organ Sharing Status While Awaiting Heart Transplantation. 
  • Sex and gender disparity in kidney transplantation: Historical and future perspectives. 
  • Sex-Related Differences in Use and Outcomes of Left Ventricular Assist Devices as Bridge to Transplantation. 
  • Should you close your waiting room? Addressing ED overcrowding through education and staff-based participatory research. 
  • Single-lung transplantation in the United States: what happens to the other lung? 
  • Skeletal muscle adiposity and outcomes in candidates for lung transplantation: a lung transplant body composition cohort study. 
  • Solid organ transplantation after treatment for childhood cancer: a retrospective cohort analysis from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Spontaneously Breathing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support Provides the Optimal Bridge to Lung Transplantation. 
  • Spotting the pantomime villain: do the usual approaches correctly indicate when waiting times got shorter? 
  • State-Level Variation in Waitlist Mortality and Transplant Outcomes Among Patients Listed for Heart Transplantation in the US From 2011 to 2016. 
  • Stress and coping in caregivers of patients awaiting solid organ transplantation. 
  • Striking a Balance in Simultaneous Heart Kidney Transplant: Optimizing Outcomes for All Wait-Listed Patients. 
  • Survival After Orthotopic Heart Transplantation in Patients Undergoing Bridge to Transplantation With the HeartWare HVAD Versus the Heartmate II. 
  • Survival Benefit of Lung Transplantation in the Modern Era of Lung Allocation. 
  • Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors. 
  • Survival after adult liver transplantation does not correlate with transplant center case volume in the MELD era. 
  • Survival of patients removed from the heart transplant waiting list. 
  • Telephone-based coping skills training for patients awaiting lung transplantation. 
  • The HVAD Left Ventricular Assist Device: Risk Factors for Neurological Events and Risk Mitigation Strategies. 
  • The Organ Transplant Imperative. 
  • The Paradox of Increasing Waiting List Mortality and Declining Utilization of Deceased Donor Grafts in Kidney Transplant. 
  • The Selah study protocol of three interventions to manage stress among clergy: a preference-based randomized waitlist control trial. 
  • The costs of denying scarcity. 
  • The ebb and flow of the NHS waiting list: how do recruitment and admission affect event-based measures of the length of 'time-to-admission'? 
  • The effect of the Statewide Sharing variance on geographic disparity in kidney transplantation in the United States. 
  • The effects of state psychiatric hospital waitlist policies on length of stay and time to readmission. 
  • The extent and predictors of waiting time geographic disparity in kidney transplantation in the United States. 
  • The future direction of the adult heart allocation system in the United States. 
  • The heart transplant allocation change attenuates but does not eliminate blood group O waitlist outcome disadvantage. 
  • The impact of prolonged exposure therapy on social support and PTSD symptoms. 
  • The mRECIST Classification Provides Insight into Tumor Biology for Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Awaiting Liver Transplantation. 
  • The new OPTN kidney allocation policy: potential for inequitable access among highly sensitized patients. 
  • The new United States heart allocation policy: Progress through collaborative revision. 
  • The relationship between frailty and cirrhosis etiology: From the Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study. 
  • The trade-off of using positive-smoking donor lungs. 
  • The utility of 6-minute walk distance in predicting waitlist mortality for lung transplant candidates. 
  • The wait for the waitlist: The next challenge in the lung allocation system. 
  • The waiting game: facing the consequences. 
  • Time to reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction. It is time to reduce it! 
  • Time to transplantation as a predictor of hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation. 
  • Tracking HLA Antibody Changes among Kidney Waitlist Candidates: One Protocol May Not Fit All. 
  • Transplant Center Variability in Organ Offer Acceptance and Mortality Among US Patients on the Heart Transplant Waitlist. 
  • Transplant Outcomes in Older Patients With Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Compared to Alcohol-related Liver Disease and Hepatitis C. 
  • Transplant social worker and donor financial assistance to increase living donor kidney transplants among African Americans: The TALKS Study, a randomized comparative effectiveness trial. 
  • Transplant versus resection for the management of hepatocellular carcinoma meeting Milan Criteria in the MELD exception era at a single institution in a UNOS region with short wait times. 
  • Transplantation traffic--geography as destiny for transplant candidates. 
  • Trends and Outcomes of Cardiac Transplantation in the Lowest Urgency Candidates. 
  • Trends and outcomes of patients with adult congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension listed for orthotopic heart transplantation in the United States. 
  • Uncertainty intervention for watchful waiting in prostate cancer. 
  • Unrepresentative, invalid and misleading: are waiting times for elective admission wrongly calculated? 
  • Update in lung transplantation 2013. 
  • Use of Skeletal Muscle Index as a Predictor of Wait-List Mortality in Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease. 
  • Use of a continuous-flow device in patients awaiting heart transplantation. 
  • Variability in donor organ offer acceptance and lung transplantation survival. 
  • Variables of importance in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients database predictive of heart transplant waitlist mortality. 
  • Vascularized composite allotransplantation in the United States: A descriptive analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Data. 
  • Ventricular Assist Device Utilization in Heart Transplant Candidates: Nationwide Variability and Impact on Waitlist Outcomes. 
  • Wait! Wait! I Am Not Dead Yet! 
  • What do we know? Limitations of the two methods most commonly used to estimate the length of the prospective wait. 
  • eConsults' Impact on Care Access and Wait Times in Rheumatology. 
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