Recently added articles from Progress in Transplantation:
Courage and character, leaders and legends: an interview with Joel Cooper, MD, FACS, FRCPS
Dec 01, 2008; ... We are lawyers in the defense of life. Society's job is a financial issue considering limited resources. Joel Cooper, June 2008 I took the train from Washington to Philadelphia to meet Dr Joel Cooper at the University of Pennsylvania. The 2-hour train ride gave me the opportunity ...
An opportunity to correct an error and any misimpressions
Dec 01, 2008; ... We wish to correct an error in our case report published in the March issue, "Factitious Wound Infections in an Altruistic Living Liver Donor" (2008:2224). We wrote that "the donor's hospital bill exceeded $500 000, all of which had been billed to the recipient's insurance." This statement was ...
Scope and standards for transplant nursing
Dec 01, 2008; ... The article by Gwen McNatt in the September issue titled "Nursing and Transplant Coordination: A Call for Clarity" (2008:208-215) is a timely report. We appreciate the thorough review and discussion presented by the author. We are pleased to report that an effort to delineate transplant ...
Correction
Dec 01, 2008; ... The article "An analysis of critical care staff's attitudes to donation in a country with presumed-consent legislation" in the September issue of Progress in Transplantation (2008:173-178) was published without ...
Skin cancer education in transplant recipients
Dec 01, 2008; ... In the past 20 years, long-term survival for solid-organ transplant recipients has improved dramatically; about 223000 patients are alive in the United States with organ transplants today. As survival rates improve, however, the morbidity and mortality associated with lifelong immunosuppressive ...
Living kidney donation among Hispanics: a qualitative examination of barriers and opportunities
Dec 01, 2008; ... Context - Despite their increasing need for kidneys and low nonliving donation rates, minimal research has been conducted to ascertain the perceptions of Hispanic Americans about living organ donation and the process of asking for such a donation. Objective - To examine perceptions of ...
Improving preemptive transplant education to increase living donation rates: reaching patients earlier in their disease adjustment process
Dec 01, 2008; ... Patients who receive a preemptive kidney transplant before starting dialysis avoid the medical complications related to dialysis and have the highest graft success and lowest mortality rates. Because only 2.5% of incident patients receive kidney transplants preemptively, improved psychosocial ...
Communication as a predictor of willingness to donate one's organs: an addition to the theory of reasoned action
Dec 01, 2008; ... Fishbein and Ajzen's theory of reasoned action has been used by many researchers, particularly in regard to health communication, to predict behavioral intentions and behavior. According to that theory, one's intention is the best predictor that one will engage in a behavior, and attitudes and ...
Short-term impact of an educational program promoting live donor kidney transplantation in dialysis centers
Dec 01, 2008; ... Context-Given the shortage of kidneys available for transplantation, a community-based intervention trial was implemented to assess the impact of an educational program on patients' access to live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT). Objective-To compare the short-term impact of a basic ...
Design and implementation of an informed consent process before liver transplantation
Dec 01, 2008; ... In the past, the content of patient education was designed at the discretion of each individual transplant center and could vary greatly from center to center. Since the 2007 implementation of the guidelines from the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
A multidisciplinary program to educate and advocate for living donors
Dec 01, 2008; ... Education is critical in decision making and the informed consent process in prospective living donors. Little has been written about how and what living donors should be taught. This article describes a multidisciplinary program for living donor education at the University of Virginia. The ...
Designing an educational strategy for increasing organ donor registration among older adults
Dec 01, 2008; ... Context-Older adults (50-70 years of age) have lower organ donor registration rates than younger adults. Despite recent increases in organ donation registration of adults 18 to 49 years of age, the increase in older adult registrations is less. Objective-To use research results from ...
Adapting teaching styles to accommodate learning preferences for effective hospital development
Dec 01, 2008; ... Hospital development professionals in organ procurement organizations engage in many roles in the hospital. The important role of educator requires making the most of each teaching opportunity by understanding the characteristics of the learning authence and applying proven principles of adult ...
Effects of information, education, and communication training about organ donation for gatekeepers: clerks at the Department of Motor Vehicles and organ donor registries
Dec 01, 2008; ... Context-Clerks at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) serve as gatekeepers in the quest to fill organ donor registries. Most people who join organ donor registries do so through their local driver's license bureau. Objective-To improve knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward organ ...
A model for structuring the donor discussion in emergent transplant procedures
Sep 01, 2008; ... Objective-To investigate the potential for maximizing organ and tissue donation by identifying an empirical basis for structuring donor discussions. Design-Intentions to donate organs and tissues were recorded in 2 separate samples of participants and analyzed separately by using Guttman ...
The relationship between the sick role and functional ability: one center's experience
Sep 01, 2008; ... Objective-To determine the impact of the sick role on posttransplant functional ability. Methods-A convenience sample of 97 kidney transplant recipients (mean age, 45.8 years; SD, 12.8 years; 47% female; 68% African American) participated in this exploratory cross-sectional study ....
Seatbelt injury resulting in functional loss of a transplanted kidney
Sep 01, 2008; ... The transplanted kidney, lying heterotopically in the iliac fossa, is especially vulnerable to damage from blunt trauma, particularly compression by vehicle seatbelt. We present a case wherein a functioning renal allograft lying in the right iliac fossa was severely injured by seatbelt ...
Roller coaster marathon: being a live liver donor
Sep 01, 2008; ... The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the meaning of being a live liver donor. Six people between ages 27 and 53 years participated. A qualitative, in-depth, semistructured interview format was used to explore donors' thoughts and feelings about being an organ donor. Five ...
An analysis of critical care staff's attitudes to donation in a country with presumed-consent legislation
Sep 01, 2008; ... Context-Lack of knowledge and confidence among critical care staff in identifying potential donors and communicating with donor families may explain missed organ and tissue donations. Objectives-To elucidate attitudes of critical care staff toward donation and their knowledge, ...
Calendar 2008
Sep 01, 2008; ... September AST Transplantation 2008: The Year in Review A Symposium presenting ATC Highlights September 6-7, San Francisco, California AASLD Transplant Hepatology Review Course September 19-20, Chicago, Illinois Heart Failure Society of America 12th ...