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Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Lifelong Immunosuppression, I Am Sure We Told Them That?: Long Term Medication Adherence in Liver Transplant Patients

    K. Foster1, C. Perez1, T. Harrison1, H. Corbo1, N. Patel1, J. Fleming1, H. Meadows1, D. Taber1, D. DuBay2, J. McGillicuddy2, N. Pilch1

    1Department of Pharmacy Services, -Medical University of South Carolina, -Charleston, SC, 2Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, -Medical University of South Carolina, -Charleston, SC

    *Purpose: Current literature describes demographic information of non-adherent patients and identifies that non-adherence may be predictive of post-txp outcomes. We suspect that patients with private…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Attitudes and Knowledge about Organ Donation in a Cohort of Medical Students: Association of Religion and Ethnicity

    M. Markell, A. Cerrato, M. Salifu

    Nephrology/Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

    *Purpose: Physicians often do not refer appropriate candidates for organ donation and the reasons may be rooted in personal beliefs about transplantation. Students come to…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Patient-Reported Self-Management in Lung Transplant Candidates

    C. C. Kennedy1, M. Budev2, S. Chandrashekaran3, D. Erasmus4, E. D. Lease5, D. Levine6, K. Thompson1, E. Stevens1, R. Benzo1

    1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 3University of Florida- Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, 4Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 5University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 6University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

    *Purpose: Pre-transplant risk factors are strongly associated with worse post-transplant survival (e.g. frailty); however, effective pre-transplant strategies to improve outcomes are lacking. We hypothesize that…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Multilevel Correlates of Immunosuppressive Nonadherence in Kidney Transplant Patients – The Multicenter ADHERE BRAZIL Study

    H. Sanders-Pinheiro1, F. A. Colugnati1, K. Denhaerynck2, E. O. Marsicano1, J. O. Medina3, S. De Geest2, A. ADHERE BRAZIL Study team1

    1Nephrology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, 2Institute of Nursing Science, Department of Public Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 3Hospital do Rim e Hipertensão/Nephrology, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    *Purpose: Nonadherence to immunosuppressive therapy is a risk factor for poor clinical and economic outcomes after kidney transplantation (KT). Brazil, having the largest public and…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Modifiable Causes of Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplant

    J. Beaumont,1 J. Peipert,1,2 C. Anderson,2 A. Paiva,3 M. Robbins,3 A. Waterman.1,2

    1Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA; 2Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 3Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.

    Racial disparities between White and non-White patients in receiving living donor kidney transplants (LDKT) are large and widespread. Yet, the causes of this disparity are…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Hospitality Houses and Transplant Patients: Assessing the Impact of a Hospitality House Dedicated to Transplant Patients and Their Families

    T. Giordano,1 J. Campbell,2 J. Weinstock,3 H. Nathan.3

    1Social Work, Gift of Life Family House, Philadelphia, PA; 2Campbell-Collaboratives, LLC, Ardmore, PA; 3Executive Leadership, Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA.

    Hospitality houses exclusively for transplant patients and their families are a relatively new concept and their connection to medical outcomes is untested. One hospitality house…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    What Happened When the 'Soft Opt-Out' to Organ Donation Was Implemented in Wales? Family and Professional Views and Experiences, and Consent Rates for the First 18 Months

    L. Mc Laughlin, J. Noyes, K. Morgan, P. Walton, A. Roberts, M. Stephens.

    Social Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom; Major Health Conditions Policy Team, Welsh Government, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom; Organ Donation, NHS Blood and Transplant, Cardiff and Liverpool, Wales, United Kingdom; Nephrology and Transplantation, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

    On 01.12.15 Wales introduced a 'soft opt-out' system of organ donation.Co-productive, mixed-methods study partnered with NHS Blood and Transplant and patient and public representatives. Data…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Multi-Center Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT) as an Enhancement to the Psychosocial Evaluation of Living Donors

    D. LaPointe Rudow,1 S. Jowsey-Gregoire,2 F. Desrosiers,3 J. Trompeta,4 LDAT Study Group.1

    1RMTI, Mount Sinai Hosptial, NY, NY; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 3NYPH, NY, NY; 4UCSF, San Francisco, CA.

    Purpose: The LDAT is the first psychosocial assessment tool developed to standardize live donor (LD) psychosocial evaluations (PsychE). It assesses motivation, LD knowledge/expectations, support, closeness…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Quality of Social Support Network and Access to Transplant: What Matters?

    A. Waterman,1,2 J. Beaumont,2 S. Kawakita,2 M. Dunbar-Forest,1 G. Danovitch,1 I. Hong,1 C. Anderson,1 M. Everly,1,2 J. Peipert.1,2

    1Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 2Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA.

    Recovery after kidney transplant (KT) requires adequate social support. Caregivers are asked to attend transplant evaluation and complete a caregiver contract. Little is known about…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Objective Markers of Frailty Predict Successful Listing and Survival for Renal Transplant

    A. Tevar, K. Lemon, C. Wu, N. Shah, R. Mehta, C. Puttarajappa, P. Sood, S. Hariharan, A. Ganoza, M. Wijkstrom, M. Molinari, A. Humar, Y. Wang, J. Steel.

    Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Background: Across all medical specialties, frailty has been shown to be a predictor of poor health outcomes. Previous studies have shown that gait speed and…
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