2020 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Interventions to Improve Patient Care Conducted by Pharmacists at an Outpatient Renal Transplant Clinic within a Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: A collaborative pharmacy practice agreement (CPPA) permits pharmacists to perform clinical services under the guidance of a supervising physician without direct physician intervention. We…2020 American Transplant Congress
Ready for Transplantation: Getting the Right Messages Across at the Right Time
*Purpose: Successful outcomes post-transplantation demands significant commitment from patients therefore it is crucial that they have a good understanding of what is involved. Our pharmacist…2020 American Transplant Congress
Does Hope for a Better Future or Fear of Death Motivate Kidney Patients More? A Decisional Balance Exploration of Motivation to Pursue Living Donor Kidney Transplant
*Purpose: We assessed whether the importance attributed to “living a longer life with transplant” versus “fear of death during transplant surgery” by kidney transplant (KT)…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Living Donor Collective Pilot Evaluations of Living Kidney Donor Candidates at 10 Programs
*Purpose: Much remains to learn regarding long-term effects of living organ donation on donors. Rare events are important, and long-term follow-up with appropriate contemporaneous controls…2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Center Experiences with Social Media Campaigns for Living Donation
*Purpose: The OPTN Living Donor Committee surveyed U.S. transplant (TX) programs to assess their experiences with social media campaigns intended to identify potential living donors…2020 American Transplant Congress
Altruistic Liver Donors at Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute: Impact of the Educational Campaign: Gift of Life
Transplant Surgery, UPMC Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Background and aims: There is an urgent need to expand access to living donor liver transplants due to a wide gap in the availability…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Living Donor Collective Pilot Evaluations of Living Liver Donor Candidates at 6 Programs
*Purpose: Much remains to learn regarding the long-term effects of living organ donation on donors. Rare events are important, and long-term follow-up with appropriate contemporaneous…2020 American Transplant Congress
Perioperative Opioid Avoidance in Liver Transplant Recipients: Significant Reduction in Opioid Use Through a Multidiscplinary, Multimodal Approach
Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
*Purpose: Given the association between substance use disorder and risk of post-surgical opioid use disorder, we developed an opioid avoidance pathway (OAP) in adult liver…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Role and Impact of Transplant Pharmacist Evaluation in a Pre-Kidney Transplant Clinic
Pharmacy Practice and Transplant Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ interpretative guidelines for conditions of participation for transplant centers define the transplant pharmacist’s role ambiguously. Limited evidence…2020 American Transplant Congress
Posttransplant Program Evaluations: Long-Term Outcomes are More Relevant to Patients Than Short-Term Outcomes
*Purpose: Posttransplant evaluations with 1-year follow-up are criticized for not identifying clinically meaningful differences between programs, not being the right outcome for patients, or including…
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