Effectiveness and efficiency of teleimaging in the transplantation process: a mixed method protocol.

Background: The transplantation process usually takes place without transplant teams being able to use imaging data to assess graft quality. The decision of whether to go get the graft or not is therefore limited and suboptimal. "Cristal images" is a teleimaging project allowing real-time visualization of images of the organs of the donor.

Evaluation of outcomes in renal transplantation with hypothermic machine perfusion for the preservation of kidneys from expanded criteria donors.

In 2012, an expert working group from the French Transplant Health Authority recommended the use of hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) to improve kidney preservation and transplant outcomes from expanded criteria donors, deceased after brain death. This study compares HMP and cold storage (CS) effects on delayed graft function (DGF) and transplant outcomes. We identified 4,316 kidney transplants from expanded criteria donors (2011-2014) in France through the French Transplant Registry.

[Cost of a renal transplant: medico-economic analysis of the amount reimbursed by the French national health program to finance renal transplantation].

Successful organ transplantation relies on several ancillary activities such as the identification of a compatible donor, organ allocation and procurement and the coordination of the transplant process. No existing study of the overall costs, in France, of these additional transplantation activities could be identified. This study determines the total additional costs of ancillary transplantation activities by comparing the costs of kidney transplantations with living donors against those using deceased donors.

[Cause of non-pertinent hospital stays: interobserver concordance using the French version of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol].

Background: The modified French version of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEPf) has been validated. Inappropriate days according to simple medical and technical criteria are identified with this tool. The aim of this study is to highlight the interest of investigating the reasons for inappropriate days and to assess the inter-observers reliability of the questionnaire developed for this purpose.

[Reliability and validity of the French version of the first part of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEPf): pertinent criteria of hospitalization stay].

Background: The Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) is a tool used to identify hospitalization days that are appropriate with respect to simple technical criteria, and the reasons for hospitalization days that do not meet these criteria. The goal of the study was to validate the clinical criteria of AEPf, required for identifying the reasons which explain these inappropriate hospital days.

Methods: The validity of a French version of criteria of appropriateness (AEPf) was assessed in a sample of 502 hospital days in medical and surgical wards of six French teaching hospitals.