A review of the current state of liver transplantation disparities

NA Wahid, R Rosenblatt, RS Brown Jr - Liver Transplantation, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Equity in access is one of the core goals of the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network
(OPTN). However, disparities in liver transplantation have been described since the …

Quality of life after liver transplantation

F Åberg - Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2020 - Elsevier
Liver transplantation (LT) enables rapid transition from critical illness and poor prognosis
back to health. After LT, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) generally becomes …

Socioeconomic disparities in adherence and outcomes after heart transplant: a UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) registry analysis

B Wayda, A Clemons, RC Givens, K Takeda… - Circulation: Heart …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: There is mixed evidence of racial and socioeconomic disparities in heart
transplant outcomes. Their underlying cause—and whether individual-or community-level …

Neighborhood level effects of socioeconomic status on liver transplant selection and recipient survival

RC Quillin III, GC Wilson, K Wima, SF Hohmann… - Clinical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Previous studies have reported that patients of higher socioeconomic
status (SES) have increased access to liver transplantation and reduced waitlist mortality …

PROMIS computerised adaptive tests are dynamic instruments to measure health‐related quality of life in patients with cirrhosis

JS Bajaj, LR Thacker, JB Wade… - Alimentary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2011; 34: 1123–1132 Summary Background Cirrhotic patients have
an impaired health‐related quality of life (HRQOL), which is usually analysed using static …

Early survivorship after liver transplantation: a qualitative study identifying challenges in recovery from the patient and caregiver perspective

SR Lieber, HP Kim, L Baldelli, R Nash… - Liver …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Survivorship after liver transplantation (LT) is a novel concept providing a holistic view of the
arduous recovery experienced after transplantation. We explored components of early …

The impact of liver transplantation on the phenotype of primary biliary cirrhosis patients in the UK-PBC cohort

G Pells, GF Mells, M Carbone, JL Newton… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Liver transplantation improves survival in end-stage primary biliary
cirrhosis (PBC), but the benefit for systemic symptoms including fatigue is less clear. The aim …

Przegląd wybranych kwestionariuszy oceny jakości życia

B Cieślik, H Podbielska - Acta Bio-Optica et Informatica Medica. Inżynieria …, 2015 - infona.pl
Niniejsza praca dotyczy oceny częstości stosowania ogólnych kwestionariuszy oceny
jakości życia (QoL–Quality of Life). Analizy dokonano na podstawie artykułów naukowych …

Influence of liver‐disease etiology on long‐term quality of life and employment after liver transplantation

F Åberg, K Höckerstedt, RP Roine… - Clinical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The etiology of liver disease would expectedly affect health‐related quality of life (HRQ o L)
and employment after liver transplantation (LT), but studies are scarce. We sent the 15 D …

Post-liver transplantation patient experience

A Kaplan, M Korenjak, RS Brown Jr - Journal of Hepatology, 2023 - Elsevier
Given improvements in post-transplant patient and graft survival, there is a growing need to
focus on patient experience and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Though liver …