Articles tagged "Patient education"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Knowledge of Chronic Kidney Disease Among Liver Transplant Patients.
J. Park, C. Koerschner, S. Selman, J. Mawby, S. Paknikar, C. Sonnenday, J. Wright Nunes, P. Sharma.
U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Background: A significant proportion of liver transplant (LT) pts develop advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) that negatively impacts mortality and morbidity. Our aim was to…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Sensitized KPD Pairs Take Longer to Find Matches.
C. Holscher,¹ E. Chow,¹ C. Purcell,² M. Ronin,² J. Garonzik-Wang,¹ A. Massie,¹ S. Gentry,³ D. Segev.¹
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; ²National Kidney Registry, New York; ³US Naval Academy, Annapolis
Kidney paired donation (KPD) can facilitate living donor transplantation for candidates with an incompatible donor, but it is unclear how sensitization or blood type affects…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Barriers and Experiences When Patients Decide on a Kidney Transplant Center.
C. Schaffhausen,^1,4 M. Bruin,³ J. Synder,^2,4 B. Kasiske,^1,4 A. Israni.^1,2,4
¹Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ³College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ⁴Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
Choosing a transplant center is one decision in a long pre-transplant process facing many patients. Qualitative studies have previously been used to better understand the…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Educational Strategies for Increased Wait-Listing Rates: Opportunities for Dialysis Center Intervention.
A. Waterman,¹ J. Peipert,¹ H. Xiao,² C. Goalby,¹ K. Lentine.²
¹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ²SLU, St. Louis, MO
Dialysis centers vary in how well they educate patients about kidney transplant (KT). This study categorized common groups of educational strategies used by dialysis staff;…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Training for Transplant: Frailty Assessment and Optimization in Kidney Transplant Candidates.
M. Mrdutt, D. Doherty, S. Tanner, J. Lappin.
Surgery, Scott & White Medical Center, Temple, TX
Purpose: To design and implement a frailty assessment and optimization program addressing potential modifiable risk factors that would ordinarily disqualify patients from kidney and/or pancreas…
2017 American Transplant Congress
How to Improve Pre-Kidney Transplant Education for Hispanics: Preferences and Perceptions of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Hispanic Transplant Program.
H. Gomez, E. Malagon-Blackwell, J. Caicedo.
The Comprehensive Transplantation Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Context: Pre-Transplant educational sessions improve access to transplantation. Currently, however, there is lack of culturally competent approaches to improve living kidney donation for Hispanics Americans.…
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At-Home Transplant Education Increases Black and Low-Income Dialysis Patients' Transplant Knowledge, Attitudes, Informed Decision-Making, and Pursuit: An Explore Transplant @ Home Randomized Controlled Trial.
A. Waterman,¹ J. Peipert,¹ A.-M. McSorley,¹ C. Goalby,¹ L. Peace.²
¹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ²Missouri Kidney Program, Columbia, MO
Black and low-income dialysis patients, who face greater barriers to kidney transplant (KT), may need additional educational support. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) assessed the…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Cultural Competency of a Mobile, Customized Patient Education Tool for Improving Potential Kidney Transplant Recipients' Knowledge and Decision-Making.
D. Axelrod,¹ C. Kynard-Amerson,² D. Wojciechowski,³ K. Lentine,⁴ M. Schnitzler,⁴ J. Peipert,² A. Waterman.²
¹Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; ²Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ³Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ⁴Transplant, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Patients with ESRD face a complex array of treatment options as a result of the revised kidney allocation system. Decision aids improve patient care through…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Non-Medical Factors Contributing to Racial Disparity in Kidney Transplant Wait-Listing.
Y.-H. Ng,¹ S. Pankratz,¹ K. Bornemann,² E. Croswell,² J. Pleis,² R. Shapiro,³ M. Unruh,¹ L. Myaskovsky.²
¹Medicine, Nephrology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; ²Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ³Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Background: African American (AA) and other minorities (OM) are known to have disproportionately higher incidence of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) but lower rates of kidney…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Ethnicity and Transplant Knowledge Among Canadian ESKD Patients.
D. Wong,¹ H. Ford,¹ C. Lok,¹ G. Nesrallah,² J. Peipert,³ C. Richardson,¹ A. Waterman,³ M. Novak,¹ I. Mucsi.¹
¹University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Humber River Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Background:Living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) offers improved life expectancy and better quality of life compared to deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) or dialysis. African and…