Fig. 1 Steps for successful quality plan development and implementation Quality Assessment Beyond the Regulatory Requirement The historical monitoring of just survival outcomes to monitor program quality is outdated and…
Year Version Elements of the program 2003 Physician Practice Connections (PPC) This PCMH precursor recognized use of systematic processes and health IT to: Know and use patient history Follow up…
Criterion Threshold Observed/expected ˃3 Observed/expected ˃1.5 P value Two-sided P < 0.05 The criteria identified are used to scrutinize a center’s performance and outcomes closely. Oversight is provided by the UNOS Department…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Cataldo Doria (ed.)Contemporary Liver TransplantationOrgan and Tissue Transplantation10.1007/978-3-319-07209-8_31 30. Role of Integrative Medicine in Liver Transplantation Anthony J. Bazzan1, Andrew B. Newberg1 and Daniel A. Monti1 (1) Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, Thomas Jefferson…
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 No. of recipients 24 23 41 40 Pregnancies/outcomesa 24/24 23/24 41/42 40/40 Mean transplant to conception interval (years) 0.54 ± 0.25…
Fig. 1 Palliative care’s place in the course of illness (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine et al. (2004). Reprinted with permission from the National Quality Forum) Table 1…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Cataldo Doria (ed.)Contemporary Liver TransplantationOrgan and Tissue Transplantation10.1007/978-3-319-07209-8_25 25. Cell Therapy for Liver Failure: A New Horizon Neil H. Riordan1, 2, 3 (1) Medistem Panama, Inc, Panama City, Panama (2) Riordan-McKenna…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Cataldo Doria (ed.)Contemporary Liver TransplantationOrgan and Tissue Transplantation10.1007/978-3-319-07209-8_23 23. Interventional Radiology for the Pre-transplant Patient Susan Shamimi-Noori1 (1) Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA Susan Shamimi-Noori Email: susan.shamimi-noori@jefferson.edu…
Fig. 1 Pig-to-human xenotransplantation as a potential solution to the organ shortage for human end-stage organ diseases Despite the above advantages of using pigs as a donor organ source, there…
Adjuvant trials Positive trials Patients (n) Outcome 5-fluorouracil + doxorubicin + cisplatin (Olthoff et al. 1995) 25 Survival %: 1 year – 78, 2 years – 55, 3 years –…
