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Articles tagged "Patient education"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    American Muslims & Informed Organ Donation Decisions: Findings from a Randomized, Controlled Trial of Religiously-Tailored Education in Mosques

    A. I. Padela1, R. Duivenbode2, M. Quinn1, M. Craig3, M. Saunders1

    1Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Initiative on Islam and Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 3The National Kidney Foundation Illinois, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: American Muslims hold more negative attitudes towards organ donation than other American populations, and these attitudes are associated with gaps in biomedical and religious…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Medication Knowledge Retention and Adherence Following Transplant: Is There Room for Improvement?

    M. H. Cooper1, A. W. Rogers1, T. L. Menser2, J. C. Krisl1

    1Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, 2Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: Transplant recipients’ complex medication regimens following transplant can lead to non-adherence, which has been linked to increased rates of acute rejection and graft loss.…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    A Video Education Intervention to Improve Kidney Transplant Knowledge and Willingness to Complete Transplant Evaluation in Dialysis Patients

    D. A. DuBay1, T. A. Morinelli1, Z. Sutton1, M. Chastain1, T. Thompkins Tindal1, Z. Su2, E. Weeda3, P. Mauldin4, M. Casey1, J. Bian2, D. Taber1, P. K. Baliga1

    1Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, 2General Internal Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, 3Clinical Pharmacy-Outcomes Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, 4General Internal Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

    *Purpose: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has set a goal of 30% (currently 18.5%) of dialysis patients to be on a transplant (Tx)…
  • 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

    K. Johnson, R. Chelewski, A. Langone, M. Peter, A. Zuckerman

    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

    D. Goodall, K. Tansey, S. Clarke-Swaby, P. Webster, E. Salisbury, J. Tomlinson, R. Bright, W. Brown

    Imerial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

    *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

    H. Rafiqzad1, A. Wasim1, A. Rezaeishahreza1, J. Lam1, A. Li1, T. Mahiuddin1, A. D. Waterman2, M. Novak1, I. Mucsi1

    1University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

    *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

    B. Kasiske, M. Conboy, Y. Ahn, A. Israni, J. Snyder

    SRTR, Minneapolis, MN

    *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

    S. E. Booker1, L. King2, J. Spiers3, H. Hunt4, R. L. Schaffer5

    1UNOS, Richmond, VA, 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 3Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 4OPTN Living Donor Committee, Richmond, VA, 5Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA

    *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

    S. Ganesh, M. Molinari, L. Tubb, A. Tevar, C. Hughes, J. Behari, A. Humar

    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

    B. Kasiske, M. Conboy, Y. Ahn, A. Israni, J. Snyder

    SRTR, Minneapolis, MN

    *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…
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