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Articles tagged "Patient education"

  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Pictogram Tool to Improve Medication Adherence in Heart Transplant Families with Limited English Proficiency and Low Health Literacy

    A. C. Rothkopf1, J. Chen2, N. Jasiak-Panek3, K. Le3, A. Joong4, L. J. Addonizio1

    1Pediatric Cardiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2Department of Pharmacy, Columbia University, New York, NY, 3Department of Pharmacy, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 4Pediatric Cardiology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Rejection in heart transplant recipients significantly limits long-term survival, impairs quality of life, and increases both direct and indirect costs of care. Preventing rejection…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    A Randomized Pilot Trial of Home-Based Physical Activity Plus Dietary Intervention to Improve Physical Function in Patients with Advanced Liver Disease

    H. Chen1, A. A. Ferrando2, M. G. White2, M. Pauly2, T. Bartter2, M. A. Dunn1, W. R. Kim3, A. Duarte-Rojo1

    1T.E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 2University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, 3Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

    *Purpose: Deconditioning and frailty are prevalent among liver transplant (LTx) candidates and prehabilitation programs have been proposed in order to improve clinical outcomes. However, few…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    “What I Wish I Would Have Known….” Patient Impressions of Transplant Education

    K. Collins1, A. Yaldo1, E. Rubinstein1, K. Kippen2, H. Olden2, S. Nagai1, M. Abouljoud1

    1Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI, 2Henry Ford, Detroit, MI

    *Purpose: Personal health management remains a key component to adherence after transplantation. The purpose of this study was to identify potential gaps in transplant education.…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Real-Life Food Safety Behavior and Incidence of Food-Borne Infections in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients

    M. Lindup, D. Golshayan, M. Pascual, O. Manuel, M. Mombelli

    CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

    *Purpose: Specific food safety measures are highly recommended in solid-organ transplant (SOT) recipients. However, the actual adherence of patients in real life and the impact…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Pilot Testing Of A Novel Transition Program

    J. Uze, N. Yazigi

    Transplantation, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washigton, DC

    *Purpose: Pediatric patients coming of age face many compliance hurdles, the roots of most lying in poor coping with heir state as a transplant recipient,…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing the Live Donor Champion Program

    A. D. Love1, D. R. Helfer1, S. Rasmussen1, M. Johnson1, J. M. Konel1, J. R. Wellen2, S. M. Nazarian3, E. King1, D. L. Segev1, T. Hwee1, A. M. Cameron1, M. L. Henderson1, E. J. Gordon4, J. M. Garonzik Wang1

    1Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 3Surgery, Penn Transplant Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 4Surgery, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: The Live Donor Champion (LDC) Program is an intervention designed to increase kidney transplant candidate knowledge about living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) and ability…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of a Liver Waitlist Candidate LDLT Educational Outreach Program on Referrals and Outcomes of Donor Evaluation

    C. Saroli Palumbo, J. Batisti, R. Batra, J. Dopico, D. Haakinson, L. Hughes, M. Joyce, S. Klein, S. Kulkarni, D. Mulligan, P. Narayanan, M. Schilsky, R. Tomlin, K. Ventura, S. Emre, A. Liapakis

    Yale, New Haven, CT

    *Purpose: Challenges to identify suitable candidates for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) include low donor acceptance, recipient & provider team reluctance to pursue LDLT. A…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    simplifyKDPI: An Animated Video to Educate Kidney Transplant Candidates about the Kidney Donor Profile Index

    K. Bonner, R. Seibert, L. Kayler

    SUNY Buffalo/ECMC, Buffalo, NY

    *Purpose: simplifyKDPI is an iteratively-designed patient-engaged mobile educational animated video program developed with guidance from patients, providers and Self-efficacy and Multimedia Learning Theories to increase…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Acceptability of Animated Video Medium to Educate Kidney Transplant Patients

    K. Bonner, M. Cobler- Lichter, N. Crenesse-Cozien, L. Lewis, T. Feeley, L. Kayler

    University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

    *Purpose: Video-based education is an emerging method to address low health literacy, a barrier to informed patient decision-making. A two-dimensional animated educational video was developed…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Pre-Kidney Transplant Patient Education: Information Retention is Associated with Improved Waitlist Outcomes

    S. Patel, J. Ptasinski-Anderson, G. Dela Torre, S. Akkina

    Transplant Nephrology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL

    *Purpose: Patients who present for a kidney transplant (KT) evaluation undergo extensive education in a short period of time in the form of a one…
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