Articles tagged "Patient education"

2017 American Transplant Congress
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…
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…