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Patient with end-stage heart failure — psychosocial aspects of heart transplant qualification
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Abstract
In highly developed countries psychological and psychosocial assessments are a standard procedure in the qualification process for glandular organ transplantation. In Poland such evaluation is not common although in some centers it has become a necessary stage in the qualification process for transplantation as is already the case in Cardiology Clinic of University Hospital No. 2 in Bydgoszcz. The article discusses a process that covers sequential events and phases a patient qualified for heart transplant goes through. The process takes into consideration particular burdens that patients undergoing transplantation experience. The article also presents psychological and psychosocial assessment criteria for cardiac transplantation.
Abstract
In highly developed countries psychological and psychosocial assessments are a standard procedure in the qualification process for glandular organ transplantation. In Poland such evaluation is not common although in some centers it has become a necessary stage in the qualification process for transplantation as is already the case in Cardiology Clinic of University Hospital No. 2 in Bydgoszcz. The article discusses a process that covers sequential events and phases a patient qualified for heart transplant goes through. The process takes into consideration particular burdens that patients undergoing transplantation experience. The article also presents psychological and psychosocial assessment criteria for cardiac transplantation.
Keywords
transplant patient, heart transplantation, heart transplant psychological qualification, psychosocial screening
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Patient with end-stage heart failure — psychosocial aspects of heart transplant qualification
Journal
Palliative Medicine in Practice
Issue
Article type
Review paper
Pages
71-75
Published online
2016-06-14
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436
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Bibliographic record
Medycyna Paliatywna w Praktyce 2015;9(2):71-75.
Keywords
transplant patient
heart transplantation
heart transplant psychological qualification
psychosocial screening
Authors
Anna Ratajska
Władysław Sinkiewicz
