Living donor transplantation: impact of patient focused care on donor outcome.
Living donor transplantation offers the optimum treatment option for patients with end stage renal failure. In September 1995, it was agreed that the programme should be actively promoted in our centre and a Nurse Co-ordinator was nominated to facilitate it. At a year the scheme was a proven success, demonstrated by a net growth in the numbers of transplants performed, together with excellent graft and patient survival figures and improved quality and duration of donor work-up.
Renal Unit, Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospital Trust, Guy's Hospital, London, UK.
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D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D019520:Living Donors / Q000523:psychology; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D016019:Survival Analysis; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016896:Treatment Outcome