title: Description of a psychosocial assessment instrument and risk criteria to support social work recommendations for kidney transplant candidates.
abstract: Developing uniform criteria and a risk assessment clinical intervention plan to identify, assess, and assign psychosocial risk levels may help guide transplant social workers' interventions and justify their listing recommendation. This article describes a kidney pre-transplant psychosocial assessment instrument that is supported by psychosocial risk criteria and a risk assessment clinical intervention plan.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Work and Human Services, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. ggreene@umm.edu
authors.forename: Gracie Moore
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000523:psychology*; D008873:Mid-Atlantic Region; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D018579:Patient Selection; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011584:Psychology; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012944:Social Support; D012947:Social Work / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*