Hart A, Schaffhausen CR, McKinney WT, Gonzales K, Perugini J, Snyder JJ, Ladin K. "You don't know what you don't know": A qualitative study of informational needs of patients, family members, and living donors to inform transplant system metrics. Clin Transplant. 2024 Jan;38(1):e15240. doi: 10.1111/ctr.15240. [Publication]
Miller J, Wood NL, Lyden GR, Zaun D, Van Slyck S, Mannon RB, Snyder JJ. Impact of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services final rule on organ procurement organization metrics and procedural trends in the procurement of pancreata for research. Pancreas. 2024 Feb 1;53(2):e176-e179. doi: 10.1097/MPA.0000000000002284. [Publication]
Lyden GR, Johnson DY, Snyder JJ, Golbus JR, Parker WF. Best practices for statistical analysis of pretransplant medical urgency. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2023 Nov 24:S1053-2498(23)02128-9. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2023.11.012. Epub ahead of print. [Publication]
Golbus JR, Ahn YS, Lyden GR, Nallamothu BK, Zaun D, Israni AK, Walsh MN, Colvin M. Use of exception status listing and related outcomes during two heart allocation policy periods. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2023;42(9):1298-1306. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2023.05.004. [Publication]
Stability of New CMS Metrics for Organ Procurement Organizations: Comparison of 2 Consecutive Years [Presentation]
Lentine KL, Tanaka T, Xiao H, Bittermann T, Dew MA, Schnitzler MA, Olthoff KM, Locke JE, Emre S, Hunt HF, Liapakis A, Axelrod DA. Variation in adult living donor liver transplantation in the United States: Identifying opportunities for increased utilization. Clin Transplant. 2023;37(7):e14924. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14924. [Publication]
Snyder JJ, Schaffhausen CR, Hart A, Axelrod DA, Dils D, Formica RN Jr, Gaber AO, Hunt HF, Jones J, Mohan S, Patzer RE, Pinney SP, Ratner LE, Slaker D, Stewart D, Stewart ZA, Van Slyck S, Kasiske BL, Hirose R, Israni AK. Stakeholders' perspectives on transplant metrics: the 2022 Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients' consensus conference. Am J Transplant. 2023 Jul;23(7):875-890. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.03.012. [Publication]
Achieving Patient Centered Metrics A Qualitative Study [Poster]
Why has the Kidney Nonuse Rate Sharply Increased since 2021? [Presentation]
A Dynamic Calculator of Waitlist Outcomes for Adult Heart Transplant Candidates [Presentation]
Racial Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation in the United States [Presentation]
A Patient-facing Tool for Multi-organ Transplants [Presentation]
Deviating from the Match Run to Save a Kidney [Poster]
Developing a Patient-centered Schematic Map of the Transplant System [Poster]
Adjusting for Race in Metrics of Organ Procurement Organization Performance [Poster]
Manay P, Seth A, Jackson K, Lentine KL, Schnitzler MA, Xiao H, Segev DL, Axelrod DA. Biliary complications after liver transplantation in the United States: Changing trends and economic implications. Transplantation. 2023 May 1;107(5):e127-e138. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004528. [Publication]
Miller J, Lyden GR, McKinney WT, Snyder JJ, Israni AK. Impacts of removing race from the calculation of the kidney donor profile index. Am J Transplant. 2023 May;23(5):636-641. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2022.12.016. [Publication]
Hart A, Patzer RE, Spear J, Hirose R, Tabatabai A, Wood NL, Schaffhausen CR, Axelrod DA, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Time to discard the term "discard." Am J Transplant. 2023 May;23(5):608-610. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.01.018. [Publication]
Wang CJ, Wetmore JB, Wey A, Miller J, Snyder JJ, Israni AK. Impact of donor kidney biopsy on kidney yield and posttransplant outcomes. Am J Transplant. 2023;23(3):387-392. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2022.11.020. [Publication]
Kwong AJ, Kim WR, Lake J, Stock PG, Wang CJ, Wetmore JB, Melcher ML, Wey A, Salkowski N, Snyder JJ, Israni AK. Impact of donor liver macrovesicular steatosis on deceased donor yield and posttransplant outcome. Transplantation. 2023;107(2):405-409. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004291. [Publication]
Axelrod DA, Schwantes IR, Harris AH, Hohmann SF, Snyder JJ, Balakrishnan R, Lentine KL, Kasiske BL, Schnitzler MA. The need for integrated clinical and administrative data models for risk adjustment in assessment of the cost transplant care. Clin Transplant. 2022 Dec;36(12):e14817. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14817. [Publication]
Valapour M, Lehr CJ, Wey A, Skeans MA, Miller J, Lease ED. Expected effect of the lung Composite Allocation Score system on US lung transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2022;22(12):2971-2980. doi: 10.1111/ajt.17160. [Publication]
Miller J, Lyden GR, Zaun D, Kasiske BL, Hirose R, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Transplant program evaluations in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Am J Transplant. 2022;22(11):2616-2626. doi: 10.1111/ajt.17123. [Publication]
Lam NN, Muiru AN, Tietjen A, Hays RE, Xiao H, Garg AX, McNatt G, Howey R, Thomas CP, Sarabu N, Wooley C, Kasiske BL, Lentine KL. Associations of lack of insurance and other sociodemographic traits with follow-up after living kidney donation. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022;80(5):683-685. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2022.01.427. [Publication]
Singh N, Li R, Alhamad T, Schnitzler MA, Mannon RB, Doshi MD, Woodside KJ, Hippen BE, Cooper M, Snyder J, Axelrod DA, Lentine KL. Exacerbation of racial disparities in living donor kidney transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kidney360. 2022;3(6):1089-1094. doi: 10.34067/KID.0008392021. eCollection 2022 Jun 30. [Publication]
Lehr CJ, Wey A, Skeans MA, Valapour M. Impact of incorporating long-term survival for calculating transplant benefit in the US lung transplant allocation system. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2022 Jul 1;41(7):866-873. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2022.02.012. [Publication]
Israni AK, Hirose R, Segev DL, Hart A, Schaffhausen CR, Axelrod DA, Kasiske BL, Snyder JJ. Toward continuous improvement of Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients performance reporting: Advances following 2012 consensus conference and future consensus building for 2022 consensus conference. Clin Transplant. 2022 July;36(7):e14716. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14716. [Publication]
Miller J, Wey A, Valapour M, Hart A, Musgrove D, Hirose R, Ahn YS, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the size of US transplant waiting lists. Clin Transplant. 2022 May;36(5):e14596. doi:10.1111/ctr.14596. [Publication]
Lentine KL, Lam NN, Caliskan Y, Xiao H, Axelrod DA, Costa SP, Levine DJ, Runo JR, Te HS, Rangaswami J, Dadhania DM, Schnitzler MA, Kasiske BL, Villines TC. Incidence, clinical correlates, and outcomes of pulmonary hypertension after kidney transplantation: analysis of linked US registry and Medicare billing claims. Transplantation. 2022 Mar 1;106(3):666-675. doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000003783. [Publication]
McKinney WT, Schaffhausen CR, Schladt D, Bruin MJ, Chu S, Snyder JJ, Martin C, Alexy T, Kasiske B, Israni AK. Designing a patient-specific search of transplant program performance and outcomes: Feedback from heart transplant candidates and recipients. Clin Transplant. 2021;35(2):e14183. doi.org/10.1111/ctr.14183. [Publication]
Lentine KL, Singh N, Woodside KJ, Schnitzler MA, Li R, Alhamad T, Rothweiler R, Parsons RF, Mannon RB, Snyder J, Cooper M, Axelrod DA. COVID-19 test reporting for deceased donors: Emergent policies, logistical challenges and future directions [letter]. Clin Transplant. 2021;35(5):e14280. doi.org/10.1111/ctr.14280. [Publication]
Kasiske BL, Ahn YS, Conboy C, Dew MA, Folken C, Levan ML, Humar A, Israni AK, LaPointe Rudow D, Trotter JF, Massie AB, Musgrove D, Living Donor Collective participants. Outcomes of living liver donor candidate evaluations in the Living Donor Collective pilot registry. Clin Transplant. 2021;35(9):e14394. doi.org/10.1111/ctr.14394. [Publication]
Miller J, Wey A, Musgrove D, Ahn YS, Hart A, Kasiske BL, Hirose R, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Mortality among solid organ waitlist candidates during COVID-19 in the United States. Am J Transplant. 2021;21:2262-2268. doi.org/10.1111/ajt.16550 [Publication]
Lehr CJ, Skeans MA, Lease ED, Valapour M. Effects of broader geographic distribution of donor lungs on travel mode and estimated costs of organ procurement. Am J Transplant. 2021;21:4012–4022. DOI: 10.1111/ajt.16697. [Publication]
Wey A, Noreen S, Gentry S, Cafarella M, Trotter J, Salkowski N, Segev D, Israni A, Kasiske B, Hirose R, Snyder J. The effect of acuity circles on deceased donor transplant and offer rates across model for end-stage liver disease scores and exception statuses. Liver Transpl. 2022 Mar;28(3):363-375. Epub 2021 Sep 25. https://doi.org/10.1002/lt.26286. [Publication]
Hariharan S, Israni AK, Danovitch G. Long-term survival after kidney transplantation. New England Journal of Medicine. 2021Aug 19;385(8):729-743. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra2014530. [Publication]
Waitlist and Posttransplant Outcomes of Candidates with IABP or ECMO: Comparison of Old and New Heart Allocation Policies [Presentation]
Waitlist and Posttransplant Outcomes of Candidates With LVAD: Comparison of Old and New Heart Allocation Policies [Presentation]
Kidney Paired Donation in Pediatrics: An Underused Opportunity? [Presentation]
Clinical and Economic Benefit of CMV Matching in Kidney Transplant: A Decision Analysis [Presentation]
Impact of Incorporating Donor Kidney Biopsy in Kidney Yield and Posttransplant Outcomes [Presentation]
The Effect of COVID-19 on Offer Acceptance Rates by Age and Race [Presentation]
The Initial Impact of COVID-19 on Reported Graft Failure Rates and Potential Confounding of SRTR PSRs [Presentation]
Associations of Lack of Insurance and Other Sociodemographic Traits with Deficiencies in Follow-up After Living Kidney Donation [Presentation]
How Long is the Wait Worthwhile? Cost-Effectiveness of Accepting a Kidney from a Donor with Apolipoprotein L1 High-Risk Genotype [Presentation]
Impact of Lung Allocation Score Cohort Update [Presentation]
Impact of CYP3A5 Status on the Clinical and Financial Outcomes of African American Kidney Transplant Recipients [Presentation]
A Kidney Waitlist Outcomes Timeline to Visualize Candidate Offers and Outcomes [Poster]
Aligning Pediatric Waiting List and Posttransplant Outcomes with the Adult Lung Allocation Score [Poster]
Proxies of Ischemia Time Do Not Predict 1-Year Posttransplant Survival in Lung Recipients [Poster]
Seasonality of Mortality for Solid Organ Waitlist Candidates [Poster]
Change in Deceased Donor Demographics with Drug Intoxication Deaths: 2010 – 2019 [Poster]
COVID-19 Incidence was Initially Associated with Posttransplant Graft Failure Rates [Poster]
Lentine KL, Salvalggio PR, Caliskan Y, Lam NN, McAdams-DeMarco M, Axelrod D, Segev D, Myaskovsky L, Dew MA, Bruschwein H, Levine DL, Sweet S, Hess GP, Kasiske BL, Schnitzler MA. Survival implications of prescription opioid and benzodiazepine use in lung transplant recipients: Analysis of linked transplant registry and pharmacy fill records. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2021;40(6):513-524. doi.org/10.1016.j.healun.2021.02.004 [Publication]
Kasiske BL, Ahn YS, Conboy M, Dew MA, Folken C, Levan M, Israni AK, Lentine KL, Matas AJ, Newell KA, LaPointe Rudow D, Massie AB, Musgrove D, Snyder JJ, Taler SJ, Wang J, Waterman AD; on behalf of the Living Donor Collective participants. Outcomes of Living Kidney Donor Candidate Evaluations in the Living Donor Collective Pilot Registry. Transplantation Direct. 2021 May;7(5):pe689. [Publication]
Lentine KL, Lam NN, Caliskan Y, Alhamad T, Xiao H, Schnitzler MA, Chang SH, Axelrod D, Segev DL, McAdams-DeMarco M, Kasiske BL, Hess GP, Brennan DC. Hydroxychloroquine and maintenance immunosuppression use in kidney transplant recipients: Analysis of linked U.S. registry and claims data. Clin Transplant. 2020 Dec;34(12):e14118. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14118. Epub 2020 Nov 22. [Publication]
Lam NN, Schnitzler MA, Axelrod DA, Xiao H, McAdams DeMarco M, Segev DL, Massie AB, Dharnidharka VR, Naik AS, Ouseph R, Hess GP, Kasiske BL, Lentine KL. Outcome implications of benzodiazepine and opioid prescriptions after kidney transplant. Clin Transplant 2020 Sep;34(9):e14005. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14005. [Publication]
Lentine KL, Alhamad T, Woodside KJ, Cheungpasitporn W, Tan JC, Chang S-H, Cooper M, Dadhani D, Axelrod D, Schnitzler MA, Ouseph R, Cabeza-Rivera FH, Kasiske BL, Parsons RF. Impact of functional status on outcomes of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: risks and opportunities for patient benefit. Transplant Direct. 2020 Aug 21;6(9):e599. doi: 10.1097/TXD.0000000000001043. [Publication]
Hsu E, Schladt DP, Wey A, Perito ER, Israni AK. Improving the predictive ability of the pediatric end-stage liver disease score for young children awaiting liver transplant. Am J Transplant. 2021;21:222-228. [Publication]
Wey A, Salkowski N, Skeans M, Kasiske BL, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Posttransplant outcome assessments at listing: Long-term outcomes are more important than short-term outcomes. Am J Transplant. 2020;20(10):2813-2821. [Publication]
Wey A, Salkowski N, Carrico RJ, Shepherd S, Kasiske BK, Thompson B, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Association between changes in MPSC review criteria and use of higher-risk kidneys for transplantation. Clin Transplant. 2020;34(7):e13872. [Publication]
Posttransplant program assessments: Long term outcomes are more important than short term outcomes [Presentation]
CMS’s Proposed Metrics for Recertification of Organ Procurement Organizations [Presentation]
The Living Donor Collective:Pilot Evaluations of Living Kidney Donor Candidates at 10 Programs [Presentation]
Proposed New Pancreas Allocation Policy: Moving to Concentric Circles as First Unit of Allocation [Presentation]
Proposed New Kidney Allocation Policy: Moving to Concentric Circles as the First Unit of Allocation [Presentation]
The Living Donor Collective Pilot Evaluations of Living Liver Donor Candidates at 6 Programs [Poster]
Lehr CJ, Skeans, M, Valapour M. Validating thoracic simulated allocation model predictions for impact of broader geographic sharing of donor lungs on transplant waitlist outcomes. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2020;39(5):433-440. [Publication]
Snyder JJ, Musgrove D, Zaun D, Wey A, Salkowski N, Rosendale J, Israni AK, Hirose R, Kasiske BL. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed metrics for recertification of organ procurement organizations: evaluation by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Am J Transplant. 2020 Mar 11. doi: 10.1111/ajt.15842. [Publication]
Wey A, Foutz J, Gustafson SK, Carrico RJ, Sisaithong K, Tosoc-Haskell H, McBride M, Klassen D, Salkowski N, Kasiske BL, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. The Collaborative Innovation and Improvement Network (COIIN): Effect on donor yield, waitlist mortality, transplant rates, and offer acceptance. Am J transplant. 2020;20(4):1076-1086. [Publication]
Kasiske BL, Pyke J, Snyder JJ. Continuous distribution as an organ allocation framework. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2020;25(2):115-121. [Publication]
Wey A, Salkowski N, Kremers WK, Ahn YS, Snyder JJ. Piecewise exponential models with time-varying effects: Estimating mortality after listing for solid-organ transplant. Stat. 2020;9(1):e264. [Publication]
Kasiske BL, Salkowski N, Wey A, Zaun D, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Response to Bui et al. Patient functional status at transplant and its impact on posttransplant survival of adult deceased-donor kidney recipients. Transplantation. 2020;104(2):e59. [Publication]
Almasri J, Tello M, Benkhadra R, Morrow A, Hasan B, Farah W, Alvarez N, Mohammed K, Allen JSP, Prokop LJ, Wang Z, Kasiske BL, Israni AK, Murad MH. A systematic review for variables to be collected in a transplant database for improving risk prediction. Transplantation. 2019;103(12):2591-2601. [Publication]
TQI 2019, Offer Acceptance CUSUM and Pretransplant Expected Worksheets [Presentation]
TQI 2019, 5-Tier Patient Focused Data [Presentation]
TQI 2019, SRTR 101 [Presentation]
TQI 2019, SRTR Hot topics [Presentation]
Lehr CJ, Skeans M, Dasenbrook E, Fink A, Fernandez G, Faro A, Valapour M. Effect of including important clinical variables on accuracy of the lung allocation score for cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019;200(8):1013-1021. [Publication]
Snyder JJ, Salkowski N, Wey A. Developing CUSUM charts for monitoring transplant outcomes: Varied goals and many possible paths to success. Transplantation. 2019;103(9):1760-1762. [Publication]
Hart A, Gustafson SK, Wey A, Salkowski N, Snyder JJ, Kasiske BL, Israni AK. The association between loss of Medicare, immunosuppressive medication use, and kidney transplant outcomes. Am J Transplant. 2019;19(7):1964-1971. [Publication]
The Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (COIIN): Deceased Donor Transplant Rates and Offer Acceptance Practices [Presentation]
Candidate Mortality after Listing: Association with Pretransplant and Posttransplant 5-tier Ratings [Presentation]
A Priori Identification of Hard-to-place Livers [Presentation]
Simulated Tier Variability [Presentation]
Continuous Distribution: LSAM Simulation Study [Presentation]
Simulation vs Reality: 250NM as First Unit of Lung Allocation [Poster]
Simulation of DSA-free Lung Allocation [Poster]
Effect of DSA-free Heart Allocation on Children [Poster]
Liver Waitlist Dropout and Transplant Rates for Metropolitan vs. Non-Metropolitan Candidates [Poster]
Liver Circle-Based Allocation: LSAM Modeling Results [Poster]
Sensitivity of 5-Tier System to Unadjusted Confounding [Poster]
Wey A, Salkowski N, Kasiske BL, Skeans MA, Gustafson SK, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. The relationship between the C-statistic and the accuracy of program-specific evaluations. Am J Transplant. 2019;19:407-413. [Publication]
Wey A, Salkowski N, Kasiske BL, Skeans MA, Schaffhausen CR, Gustafson SK, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Association of pretransplant and posttransplant program ratings with candidate mortality after listing. Am J Transplant. 2019;19:399-406. [Publication]
Wey A, Salkowski N, Gustafson SK, Skeans MA, Kasiske BL, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Comparing Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipient posttransplant program-specific outcome ratings at listing with subsequent recipient outcomes after transplant. Am J Transplant. 2019;19:391-398. [Publication]
Kasiske BL, Wey A, Salkowski N, Zaun D, Schaffhausen CR, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Seeking new answers to old questions about public reporting of transplant program performance in the United States. Am J Transplant. 2019;19:317-323. [Publication]
Wey A, Salkowski N, Kasiske BL, Skeans M, Schaffhausen CR, Gustafson SK, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Five-tier utility: a start on the path to better reporting, in response to Schold and Buccini. Am J Transplant. 2019;19:608-609. [Publication]
Kasiske BL, Salkowski N, Wey A, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients program-specific reports: Where we have been and where we are going. Curr Opin Organ Transpl. 2019;24:58-63. [Publication]
SRTR Risk Models- A Guide to Understanding [Presentation]
SRTR CUSUMs- A Guide to Understanding [Presentation]
TQI 2018 What's New [Presentation]
TQI 2018 SRTR Tools [Presentation]
TQI 2018 Good Metrics [Presentation]
Snyder JJ, Salkowski N, Wey A, Pyke J, Israni AK, Kasiske BL. Organ distribution without geographic boundaries: a possible framework for organ allocation. Am J Transplant. 2018;118:2635-2640. [Publication]
Wey A, Valapour M, Skeans MA, Salkowski N, Colvin M, Kasiske BK, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Heart and lung organ offer acceptance practices of transplant programs are associated with waitlist mortality and organ yield. Am J Transplant. 2018;18:2061-2067. [Publication]
Variation in Cost of Death and Graft Failure Across All Solid Organs [Presentation]
The Potential Survival Benefit of DCD Livers [Presentation]
Role of Drug Overdose in the Increase in Deceased Donors [Presentation]
Program Specific Survival from Listing [Presentation]
A Calculator for Kidney Transplant Waitlist Outcomes [Presentation]
Large Decrease in Liver Waiting List Dropout Rate for MELD > 14 [Poster]
Update and Validation of LSAM [Poster]
Heart and Lung Offer Acceptance Practices are Associated with Organ Yield and Local Placement [Poster]
Is Percent Exception at Transplant a Driver of MELD Inflation? [Poster]
Offer Acceptance Practices and Geographic Variability in Allocation MELD at Transplant [Poster]
Geographic variation in Drug Overdose as Donor Cause of Death [Poster]
Wey A, Salkowski N, Kasiske BL, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. A five-tier system for improving the categorization of transplant program performance. Health Serv Res. 2018;53:1979-1991. [Publication]
Wey A, Gustafson SK, Salkowski N, Pyke J, Kasiske BL, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Program-specific transplant rate ratios: Association with allocation priority at listing and posttransplant outcomes. Am J Transplant. 2018;18:1360-1369. [Publication]
Goel A, Kim WR, Pyke J, Schladt DP, Kasiske BL, Snyder JJ, Lake JR, Israni AK. Liver simulated allocation modeling: were the predictions accurate for Share 35? Transplantation. 2018;102:769-774. [Publication]
Axelrod DA, Schnitzler MA, Irish W, Xiao H, Tuttle-Newhall E, Chang SH, Kasiske BL, Lentine KL. An economic assessment of contemporary kidney transplant practice. Am J Transplant. 2018;18:1168-1176. [Publication]
Wey A, Salkowski N, Kremers WK, Schaffhausen CR, Kasiske BL, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. A kidney offer acceptance decision tool to inform the decision to accept the offer or wait for a better kidney. Am J Transplant. 2018;18:897-906. [Publication]
Wey A, Pyke J, Schladt DP, Gentry SE, Weaver T, Salkowski N, Kasiske BL, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Offer acceptance practices and geographic variability in allocation model for end-stage liver disease at transplant. Liver Transplant. 2018;24:478-487. [Publication]
Naik AS, Cibrik DM, Sakhuja A, Samaniego M, Lu Y, Shahinian V, Norman SP, Kasiske BL, Schnitzler MA, Segev DL, Lentine KL. Temporal trends, center-level variation, and the impact of prevalent state obesity rates on acceptance of obese living kidney donors. Am J Transplant. 2018;18:642-649. [Publication]
Schaffhausen CR, Bruin MJ, Chesley D, McBride M, Snyder JJ, Kasiske BL, Israni AK. What patients and members of their support networks ask about transplant program data. Clin Transplant. 2017;31:e13125. DOI: 10.1111/ctr.13125. [Publication]
Salkowski N, Wey A, Snyder JJ, Kasiske BL. Response to Renz and Diaz “The impact of adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation on transplant center outcomes reporting.” Clin Transplant. 2018;32:e13159. [Publication]
Kasiske BL, Asrani SK, Dew MA, Henderson ML, Henrich C, Humar A, Israni AK, Lentine KL, Matas AJ, Newell KA, LaPoint Rudow D, Massie AB, Snyder JJ, Taler SJ, Trotter JF, Waterman AD. The Living Donor Collective: A scientific registry for living donors. Am J Transplant. 2017;17:3040-3048. [Publication]
Wey A, Salkowski N, Kasiske BL, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Influence of kidney offer acceptance behavior on metrics of allocation efficiency. Clin Transplant. 2017;31:e13057. DOI: 10.1111/ctr.13057. [Publication]
Kandaswamy R, Stock PG, Gustafson SK, Skeans M, Thompson B, Kasiske BL. Reply to comment on the article “OPTN/SRTR 2015 Annual Data Report: Pancreas.” Am J Transplant. 2017;17:1954-1955. [Publication]
Gruessner et al. Comment on the article “OPTN/SRTR 2015 Annual Data Report: Pancreas." American Journal of Transplantation 2017; 17: 1952–1953. [Publication]
Kasiske BL, Salkowski N, Wey A, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. Potential implications of recent and proposed changes in the regulatory oversight of solid organ transplantation in the United States. Am J Transplant. 2016;16:3371-3377. [Publication]
Lam NN, Schnitzler MA, Segev DL, Hess G, Kasiske BL, Randall HB, Axelrod D, Xiao H, Garg AX, Brennan DC, Lentine KL. Diabetes mellitus in living pancreas donors: use of integrated national registry and pharmacy claims data to characterize donation-related health outcomes. Transplantation. 2017;101:1276-1281. [Publication]
Program-Specific Offer Acceptance Behavior for Kidney Programs Across the Spectrum of KDPI [Poster]
An OPO Offer Acceptance Report for Hard-to-Place Kidneys [Poster]
Obesity predicts New-Onset Diabetes after Living Kidney Donation [Poster]
Exception Scores For Patients on the Liver Waiting List [Poster]
Program Practice Drives Variation in Choice of US Kidney Transplant Induction Therapy [Poster]
KDPI Obscures Trends in Absolute Donor Risk [Poster]
Insurance Status Affects Long-Term Survival after Lung Transplant in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis [Poster]
The Associations between Immunosuppression Use, Loss of Medicare and Kidney Allograft Outcomes [Poster]
Public Reporting of Transplant Program Outcomes Evaluations [Presentation]
KDPI and Small (<20kg) Kidney Donors [Presentation]
Prescription Opioid Use Before and After Kidney Transplant [Presentation]
MELD Exception Score: LSAM modeling of a fixed floor rather than an elevator [Presentation]
Geographic Variations in Access to Kidney Transplant [Presentation]
Addition of FEV1 Drop to LAS May Improve Access of CF Patients to Transplant [Presentation]
Minimal Effect of Broader Heart Sharing on Regional Outcomes [Presentation]
Understanding Pharmaceutical Care Needs of Living Kidney Donors through Linked Transplant Registry and Pharmacy Claims Data [Presentation]
Antidepressant Medication Use Before and After Kidney Transplant: Implications for Outcomes [Presentation]
Locke JE, Mehta S, Sawinski D, Gustafson S, Shelton BA, Reed RD, MacLennan P, Bolch C, Durand C, Massie A, Mannon RB, Gaston R, Saag M, Overton T, Segev DL. Access to kidney transplantation among HIV-infected waitlist candidates. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017;12:467-475. [Publication]
Lentine KL, Lam NN, Schnitzler MA, Hess GP, Kasiske BL, Xiao H, Axelrod DA, Garg AX, Schold JD, Randall H, Dzebisashvili N, Brennan DC, Segev DL. Pre-donation prescription opioid use: A novel risk factor for readmission after living kidney donation. Am J Transplant. 2017;17:744-753. [Publication]
Randall HB, Alhamad T, Schnitzler MA, Zhang Z, Ford-Glanton S, Axelrod DA, Segev DL, Kasiske BL, Hess GP, Yuan H, Ouseph R, Lentine KL. Survival implications of opioid use before and after liver transplantation. Liver Transplantation. 2017;23:305-314. [Publication]
Locke JE, Gustafson SK, Mehta S, Reed RD, Shelton B, MacLennan PA, Durand C, Snyder JJ, Salkowski N, Massie A, Sawinski D, Segev, DL. Survival benefit of kidney transplantation in HIV-infected patients. Ann Surg. 2017;265:604-608. [Publication]
Wang CJ, Wetmore JB, Israni AK Old versus new: progress in reaching the goals of the new kidney allocation system Hum Immunol. 2017;78:9-15 [Publication]
Do All cPRA 100 Percent Candidates Have Equal Access to Organ Allocation? [Poster]
Projection vs. reality: KPSAM and KAS [Poster]
Thoracic Simulated Allocation Modeling of Broader Sharing [Poster]
Changing Demographics of HIV Liver Transplant Candidates [Poster]
Evaluating Outcomes in Multi-Organ Liver Transplant Recipients [Poster]
Geographic Differences in HIV Kidney Transplant Waitlist Characteristics [Poster]
Historical Comparison of Projected and Observed Liver Transplants [Poster]
Program Effect Attenuation with Time Posttransplant [Poster]
Survival Benefit of Liver Transplant Among HIV Waitlist Candidates [Poster]
A Bayesian Method for Identifying Transplant Programs for Further Peer Review [Poster]
Changes in Medicare Coverage After Kidney Transplant [Poster]
Cold Ischemia Time in Deceased Donor Transplants Where Donor and Recipient are in Same Hospital [Poster]
Costs of Pediatric Kidney Transplant [Poster]
Current State of Living Kidney Donor Follow-up in the US and the New OPTN Reporting Requirements [Poster]
Gender Differences in Access to Lung Transplant in US After LAS Implementation [Poster]
Lung Donor Availability and Implications for Pediatric Candidates Aged 9-11 Years [Poster]
Metformin Use in Kidney Transplant Recipients Throughout the US [Poster]
Relationship Between Transport Time and Cold Ischemia Time in Liver Transplantation [Poster]
Validation of Center Reported Immunosuppresive Medication use with an Independent Pharmacy Database [Poster]
Use of Small (<10 kg) Kidney Donors in the US [Presentation]
A Risk Quantification Score for Heart Transplants: A Heart Donor Risk Index (HDRI) [Presentation]
Geographic Variation in Liver Supply and Demand [Presentation]
Impact of Proximity MELD/PELD Points on Liver Redistricting Scenarios [Presentation]
Measuring Deceased Donor: Progress and Promise [Presentation]
Pre-donation Prescription Narcotic Use: A Novel Risk Factor for Readmission after Living Donor Nephrectomy [Presentation]
Prelisting Prescription Narcotic Use: Survival Implications in Liver Transplantation [Presentation]
Thoracic Simulation Allocation Modeling (TSAM) of a 6 Tier Allocation Strategy for Heart Transplant [Presentation]
Would transplanting kidneys currently being discarded in the US place programs at risk for regulatory review? [Presentation]
A Simple Tool to Predict Liver Transplant Waitlist Outcomes [Presentation]
Broader Geographic Sharing of Pediatric Lung Donors Improves Allocation Efficiency [Presentation]
New SRTR Risk-Adjustment Models for Adult Kidney Transplant Outcomes [Presentation]
Survival Benefit of Kidney Transplant Among HIV Waitlist Candidates [Presentation]
The Effects of High-Risk Donors and Recipients on SRTR Program-Specific Outcomes [Presentation]
The Good The Bad The Needs Current Prediction Methods Used PSRs [Presentation]
Designing Systematic and Center-Specific Metrics to Foster Innovation [Presentation]
Changes in Liver Distribution Following the Implementation of Share-35 [Presentation]
Donor Potential if All Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) in the US Were Performing as Expected or Better [Presentation]
Possible Effects of New National Allocation Policy for Deceased Donor Kidneys in the US [Presentation]
Impact of Extended 1A Time for VADs on Other Heart Transplantation Candidates [Presentation]
Incremental Cost-effectiveness of Lung Transplant by Lung Allocation Score [Presentation]
International Comparison of the Cost-effectiveness of VADs as Bridge to Transplant [Presentation]
Optimized Redistricting Liver Allocation Exploring Impact Choices Tx Community [Presentation]
Organ Procurement Organization Performance Net Import Deceased Donor Livers [Presentation]
Backdating Waiting Time to Dialysis Start New Kidney Allocation System [Presentation]
A Look Inside the SRTR Data [Presentation]
Addressing Geographic Disparities in Organ Availability [Presentation]
Allocating Deceased Donor Kidneys to High PRA Patients: A Simulation [Presentation]
Causes of Kidney Allograft Loss and Death in the United States, 2000-2010 [Presentation]
Cost Implications of New Kidney Allocation Policy [Presentation]
Delayed HCC MELD Exception Score Improves Disparity in Access to Liver Transplant [Presentation]
Impact of the Revised Lung Allocation Score on Heart-Lung Candidates [Presentation]
Improving the SRTR Methodology Used to Identify Potentially Underperforming Transplant Programs in the United States [Presentation]
Limitations of the Program-Specific Reports? [Presentation]
New Proposed National Allocation Policy for Deceased Donor Kidneys in the U.S. and Its Possible Impact on Patient Outcomes [Presentation]
Status 1A Utilization for Heart Transplant Candidates with Ventricular Assist Devices [Presentation]
What’s New in Organ Specific Allocation [Presentation]
Pancreas After Kidney Transplant: Graft Loss [Presentation]
Continuous Flow VADs: Improved Wait-List Survival [Presentation]
The Shrinking PAK List: Why? [Presentation]
Risk Factors for Mortality After Pancreas After Kidney TX: Importance of a Functioning Kidney [Presentation]
A Preview of the 2011 OPTN-SRTR Annual Data Report [Presentation]
Karnofsky Score: Risk Adjustment of Transplant Outcomes in the US [Presentation]
High MELD/PELD Versus Status 1A [Presentation]
Developing a Kidney Waiting List Calculator [Presentation]
High Pre-transplant Insulin Requirements Correlates with Pancreas Failure Risk in SPK Transplantation [Presentation]
Directions in Reporting Center- Specific Results [Presentation]
OPTN/SRTR Registry Analysis [Presentation]
LAS Proposed Revisions; Access to Lung Transplantation [Presentation]
Variability in Liver Waiting List Removals: False Ascertainment of Waiting List Deaths [Presentation]
OPO Performance: Observed and Expected Donor Yield [Presentation]
Wang JH, Skeans MA, Israni AK. Current status of kidney transplant outcomes: dying to survive Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2016;23:281-286. [Publication]
Gentry SE, Hirose R, Mulligan D. Resolving misconceptions about liver allocation and redistricting methodology JAMA Surg. 2016;151:991-992. [Publication]
Hart A, Schladt DP, Zeglin J, Pyke J, Kim WR, Lake JR, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Mulligan DC, Kasiske BL, Snyder JJ, Israni AK. Predicting outcomes on the liver transplant waiting list: Accounting for large regional variation in organ availability and priority allocation points Transplantation. 2016;100:2153-2159. [Publication]
Hart A, Salkowski N, Snyder JJ, Israni AK, Kasiske BL. Beyond "median waiting time:" Development and validation of a competing risk model to predict outcomes on the kidney transplant waiting list Transplantation. 2016;100:1571-1577. [Publication]
Salkowski N, Wey A, Snyder JJ, Orlowski JP, Israni AK, Kasiske BL. The clinical relevance of Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network screening criteria for program performance review in the United States Clin Transplant. 2016;30:1066-1073. [Publication]
Snyder JJ, Salkowski N, Wey A, Israni AK, Schold JD, Segev DL, Kasiske BL. Effects of high-risk kidneys on Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients program quality reports Am J Transplant. 2016;16:2646-2653. [Publication]
Smith JM, Schnitzler MA, Gustafson SK, Salkowski NJ, Snyder JJ, Kasiske BL, Israni AK. Cost implications of new national allocation policy for deceased donor kidneys in the United States Transplantation. 2016;100:879-885. [Publication]
Colvin M, Miranda-Herrera D, Gustafson SK, Heubner B, Skeans M, Wang X, Snyder JJ, Kasiske BL, Israni AK. Impact of increased time at the highest urgency category on heart transplant outcomes for candidates with ventricular assist devices J Heart Lung Transplant. 2016;35:326-334. [Publication]
Gebel HM, Kasiske BL, Gustafson SK, Pyke J, Shteyn E, Israni AK, Bray RA, Snyder JJ, Friedewald JJ, Segev DL. Allocating deceased donor kidneys to candidates with high panel-reactive antibodies Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016;11:505-511. [Publication]
Tsuang WM, Chan KM, Skeans MA, Pyke J, Hertz MI, Israni AK, Robbins-Callahan L, Visner G, Wang X, Wozniak TC, Valapour M. Broader sharing of pediatric donor lungs improves pediatric access to transplant Am J Transplant. 2016;16:930-937. [Publication]
Gentry SE, Chow EKH, Dzebisashvili N, Schnitzler MA, Lentine KL, Wickliffe CE, Shteyn E, Pyke J, Israni AK, Kasiske BL, Segev DL, Axelrod DA. The impact of redistricting proposals on health care expenditures for liver transplant candidates and recipients Am J Transplant. 2016;16:583-593 [Publication]
Snyder JJ, Salkowski N, Kim SJ, Zaun D, Xiong H, Israni AK, Kasiske BL. Developing statistical models to assess transplant outcomes using national registries: The process in the United States Transplantation. 2016;100:288-294. [Publication]
Gentry SE, Chow E, Massie A, Segev D. Gerrymandering for justice: redistricting US liver allocation Interfaces. 2015;45:462-480. [Publication]
Gentry SE, Segev DL, Kasiske BL, Mulligan DC, Hirose R. Robust models support redistricting liver allocation to reduce geographic disparity Transplantation. 2015;99:e159-e160. [Publication]
Nassir BA, Dean CE, Li S, Salkowski N, Solid CA, Schnitzler MA, Snyder JJ, Kim SJ, Kasiske BL, Linzer M, Israni AK. Variation in cost and quality in kidney transplantation Transplantation. 2015;99:2150-2157. [Publication]
Gentry SE, Chow EKH, Massie A, Luo X, Shteyn E, Pyke J, Zaun D, Snyder JJ, Israni AK, Kasiske BL, Segev DL. Liver sharing and organ procurement organization performance under redistricted allocation Liver Transpl. 2015;21:1031-1039. [Publication]
Salkowski N, Snyder JJ, Kasiske BL. Response to Kalbfleish and Schaubel: "A Perspective on the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Migration to Bayesian Methods" Am J Transplant. 2015; 15: 2273–2274. [Publication]
Heimbach JK, Hirose R, Kim WR, Schladt DP, Xiong H, Liu J, Olthoff K, Harper A, Snyder JJ, Israni AK, Kasiske BL, Stock PG. Delayed hepatocellular carcinoma model for end-stage liver disease exception score improves disparity in access to liver transplant in the United States Hepatology. 2015;61:1643-1650. [Publication]
Massie AB, Chow EKH, Wickliffe CE, Luo X, Gentry SE, Mulligan DC, Segev DL. Early changes in liver distribution following implementation of Share-35 Am J Transplant. 2015;15:659-667. [Publication]
Gentry SE, Chow EKH, Massie A, Luo X, Zaun D, Snyder JJ, Israni AK, Kasiske B, Segev DL. Liver sharing and organ procurement organization performance Liver Transpl. 2015;21:293-299. [Publication]
Kim SP, Gupta K, Israni AK, Kasiske BL. Accept/decline decision module for the liver simulated allocation model Health Care Manag Sci. 2015;18:35-57. [Publication]
Stephen J, Anderson-Haag TL, Gustafson S, Snyder JJ, Kasiske BL, Israni AK. Metformin use in kidney transplant recipients in the United States Am J Nephrol. 2014;40:546-553. [Publication]
Gentry SE, Chow EK, Wickliffe CE, Massie AB, Leighton T, Segev DL. Impact of broader sharing on the transport time for deceased donor livers Liver Transpl. 2014; 20: 1237-1243. [Publication]
Israni AK, Salkowski N, Gustafson S, et al. New national allocation policy for deceased donor kidneys in the United States and possible effect on patient outcomes J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014; 25: 1842-1848. [Publication]
Salkowski N, Snyder JJ, Zaun DA, et al. A Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Bayesian method for identifying underperforming transplant programs Am J Transplant. 2014;14:1310-1317. [Publication]
Salkowski N, Snyder JJ, Zaun DA, et al. Bayesian methods for assessing transplant program performance Am J Transplant. 2014;14:1271-1276. [Publication]
Allen AM, Kim WR, Xiong H, Liu J, Stock PG, Lake J, Chinnakotla S, Snyder JJ, Israni AK, Kasiske BL. Survival of recipients of livers from donation after circulatory death who are relisted and undergo retransplant for graft failure Am J Transplant. 2014;14:1120-1128. [Publication]
Kasiske BL, Stewart DE, Bista BR, Salkowski N, Snyder JJ, Israni AK, Crary GS, Rosendale JD, Matas AJ, Delmonico FL. The role of procurement biopsies in acceptance decisions for kidneys retrieved for transplant Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014;9:562-571. [Publication]
Snyder JJ, Salkowski N, Zaun D, Leppke SN, Leighton T, Israni AK, Kasiske BL. New quality monitoring tools provided by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients: CUSUM Am J Transplant. 2014;14:515-523. [Publication]
Snyder JJ, Salkowski N, Leighton T, Valapour M, Israni AK, Hertz MI, Kasiske BL. The equitable allocation of deceased donor lungs for transplant in children in the United States Am J Transplant. 2014;14:178-183. [Publication]
Friedewald JJ, Samana CJ, Kasiske BL, et al. The Kidney Allocation System Surg Clin N Am. 2013;93:1395-1406. [Publication]
Leppke S, Leighton T, Zaun D, et al. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients: Collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on transplantation in the United States Transplant Rev. 2013;27(2):50-56. [Publication]
Kasiske BL, Gustafson S, Salkowski N, et al. Optimizing the program-specific reporting of pancreas transplant outcomes Am J Transplant. 2013;13:337-347. [Publication]
Smith JM, Biggins SW, Haselby DG, et al. Kidney, pancreas and liver allocation and distribution in the United States Am J Transplant. 2012 Dec;12(12):3191-3212. [Publication]
Colvin-Adams M, Valapour M, Hertz M, et al. Lung and heart allocation in the United States Am J Transplant. 2012 Dec;12(12):3213-34. [Publication]
Kasiske BL, McBride MA, Cornell DL, et al. Report of a consensus conference on transplant program quality and surveillance Am J Transplant. 2012 Aug;12(8):1988-96. [Publication]
Akkina SK, Asrani SK, Peng Y, et al. Development of organ-specific donor risk indices Liver Transpl. 2012 Apr;18(4):395-404. [Publication]
