Articles tagged "Informed consent"

2016 American Transplant Congress
The “PHS Increased Risk” Label Is Associated with Non-Utilization of Hundreds of Organs Per Year.
M. Volk,¹ A. Wilk,² C. Wolfe,³ D. Kaul.⁴
¹Transplantation Institute, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA; ²United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ³Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University, Durham, NC; ⁴Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
The Public Health Service (PHS) guidelines use behavioral risk factors to designate certain organ donors as carrying increased risk for the transmission of hepatitis B,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Informing Informed Consent for High KDPI Kidneys.
A. Nishio Lucar, D. Keith, G. Vranic.
Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
The standard approach to informed consent for high KDPI (KDPI 86-100%) deceased donor kidneys (DDK) relies on anticipated graft half-life and may not provide candidates…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Transplant Health Literacy of Liver Transplant Candidates and Their Caregivers.
Y. Bababekov,¹ Z. Fong,^1,2 J. Adler,¹ H. Yeh,¹ D. Chang,^1,2 J. Pomposelli.³
¹Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ²Codman Center for Clinical Effectivness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ³Transplantation, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA.
Purpose: All transplant programs provide education sessions and instructional material to their patients to improve health literacy. However, their efficacy is unknown. We piloted a…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Utilizing CDC High Risk Donors to Improve Outcomes in Liver Transplantation
V. Fleetwood, J. Lusciks, M. Hertl, E. Chan.
General Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
Introduction: An under-utilized demographic in liver transplantation is the CDC high-risk donor (HRD). These individuals, considered at higher risk of blood-borne diseases, contribute approximately 9%…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Tool to Evaluate Coercion, Pressure, and Motivation in Potential Live Kidney Donors
A. Shaffer,¹ E. King,¹ J. Kahn,² L. Erby,³ D. Segev.¹
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ²Bergman Institute for Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ³School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Live donor kidney transplantation yields improved graft survival and recipient longevity, as compared to deceased donors. However, one concern with living donation is the potential…