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The Liver Meeting 2021
Evaluating Disparities in Access to and Outcomes o ...
Evaluating Disparities in Access to and Outcomes of Liver Transplantation
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Dr. Goldberg moderates a seminar on liver transplantation disparities, covering gender, pediatric, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status issues. Challenges include disease severity recognition, referrals, evaluation, waitlisting decisions, and access to care based on social support and socioeconomic factors. Dr. Verna discusses gender equity disparities, proposing solutions like GFR substitution in MELD score calculations. Dr. Hsu focuses on enhancing pediatric liver transplantation, while Dr. Turow addresses care for the uninsured. Dr. Ford emphasizes racial disparities in post-transplant outcomes to minimize preventable deaths on the pediatric liver transplant waitlist. The transcript highlights organ allocation policies for children, ethical concerns in pediatric organ transplantation, insurance-based disparities in post-transplant outcomes, Medicaid expansion effects, and immigrant access to transplantation. It stresses the importance of equitable allocation policies, awareness of post-transplant outcome disparities, Medicaid expansion's impact, and challenges for uninsured immigrants. The importance of research to address disparities, ACA and Medicaid benefits, and the role of advocates and navigators in aiding uninsured patients are discussed, emphasizing equitable care access for all patients despite barriers.
Keywords
liver transplantation disparities
gender disparities
pediatric liver transplantation
race disparities
socioeconomic status disparities
disease severity recognition
referrals for liver transplantation
MELD score calculations
organ allocation policies
post-transplant outcomes
Medicaid expansion effects
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