The objective of this research was to identify in the literature the instruments applied to measure the quality of life (QOL) in kidney transplant patients. This is a literature review carried out in the Pubmed, Science direct databases and in the Virtual Health Library (VHL) portal that identified publications that used Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (MRRP) in kidney transplantation. The corpus of analysis ...
Objetivo: validar o instrumento de avaliação da qualidade e melhoria do desempenho dos programas de transplantes dos Estados Unidos à realidade brasileira. Método: estudo metodológico desenvolvido para a validação semântica e adaptação cultural do instrumento Quality assessment and Performance Improvement nas seguintes etapas: 1) tradução; 2) síntese; 3) retrotradução; 4) revisão por comitê de especialistas; 5)...
Objective to identify the reasons for refusal of corneas. Method this was a cross-sectional, retrospective, descriptive and correlational study composed of 5,560 optical corneas. The information was taken from the notification, organ procurement and distribution centers database as well as donor records. Descriptive statistics were used for the analysis of categorical variables and specific tests with a signifi...
Aim: to verify the internal consistency of an evaluative knowledge questionnaire on the liver transplant process and evaluate the knowledge of the candidates on the waiting list for liver transplantation, as well as their perception of their own knowledge. Method: quantitative, descriptive / exploratory study, with patients on the waiting list for liver transplantation as participants. Results: Sixty-two patien...
Objetivos: presentar los resultados de la evaluación en relación a los cambios en el número de posibles donantes, donantes efectivos, y las tasas de conversión después de la puesta en práctica de un proyecto de coordinación intrahospitalaria para la donación de órganos y tejidos para trasplantes. Métodos: un estudio epidemiológico, retrospectivo y transversal, se llevó a cabo con los datos de la donación de órg...