Articles tagged "Patient education"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Non-Directed Kidney Donor Candidate Referral, Care, and Attrition in an Online Portal.
R. Hays,¹ K. Schappe,¹ D. Kaufman,¹ D. Mandelbrot.²
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI; ²Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
When non-directed live kidney donation (NDD) was first described in the early 2000s, a high rate of inquiry per actual donor was noted. Since then,…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Living Donation by Implementing the Kidney Coach Program.
D. LaPointe Rudow, S. Geatrakas, J. Armenti, A. Tomback, R. Shapiro.
Recanati Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Introduction: It is firmly established that for patients requiring transplant, living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is better than deceased donor transplantation. However, recipients find it…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Can We Improve Donation Through Pre-Kidney Transplantation Education Using Internet-Based Resources? An Analysis of Internet Use Patterns Among Hispanics.
H. Gomez, E. Malagon-Blackwell, J. Caicedo.
The Comprehensive Transplantation Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Context: Waitlisted Hispanics received disproportionately fewer living donor kidney transplantation in 2014 compared to non-Hispanic whites (4% versus 10%). Internet-based education improves organ donation and…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Assessments of Literacy, Cognitive Function and Transplant Medication Knowledge in Renal Transplant Recipients.
J. Trofe-Clark,¹ W. Gbemudu,² S. Ryan,² D. Sawinski,¹ M. Lim,¹ S. Goral,¹ M. Bleicher,¹ R. Bloom,¹ P. Reese.¹
¹Renal Division, Perelman School of Medicine, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; ²Hosp. of Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Background: Medication adherence is often low in renal transplant recipients (RTR) and is in part due to inadequate knowledge. Therefore, new tools to identify medication…
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.…