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March 2010:

• Digital imaging of extended creiteria donor livers to facilitate placement and utilization
• Technical aspects of intravascular pressure monitoring during donor care                (Procurement test in this article)
• Increasing organ yield through a lung management protocol
• A clinical group's attempts to raise awarementss of organ and tissue donation
• Distress associated with adverse effects of immunosuppressive medication in kidney transplant receipients
• Assessing historical compliance with medical recommendations among transplant candidates: preliminary findings
• Decision making and psychosocial outcomes among living kidney donors: a pilot study
• Individual and environmental correlates and predictors of early adherence and outcomes after liver transplantation          (Transplant test in this article)
• Liver transplant recipients: individual, social, and environmental resources
• Gastrointenstinal symptoms in kidney transplant recipients: what about silent sufferes?
• Development of a decision aid for adult cystic fibrosis patients considering referral for lung transplantation
• Organ donation procedure: an epidemiological study

Editorial

Letters to the Editor

NATCO Position Statement

Author and Subject Index 2008

Author Guidelines

Calendar

Table of Contents

Policy Updates

December 2009:

• Effects of hyperglycemia on the development of new-onset diabetes after liver transplantation
• Teaching organ and tissue donation in medical and nursing education: a needs assessment
• Prevalence and correlates of influenza vaccination among kidney transplant patients
• Caregivers' perspectives on decision making about lung transplantation in cystic fibrosis
• Induction immunosuppression for orthotopic heart transplantation: a review (Transplant test in this article)
• One kidney transplant center's experience: linking process improvements and Medicare/Medicaid conditions of participation
• Traumatized liver grafts for organ donation? A single-center experience
• Development of a survey to identify barriers to living donation in kidney transplant candidates
• Kidney donation and transplantation in Eurotransplant 2006-2007: minimizing discard rates by using a rescue allocation policy
• Stability of levothyroxine sodium 0.4 µg/mL in 0.9 % sodium chloride injection (Procurement test in this article)
• Family, friends, and faith: how organ donor families heal
• Pelvic kidney in organ donation: case study
• Attitude of nursing staff toward organ donation in a Spanish hospital with a solid-organ transplant program

Editorial

Letters to the Editor

NATCO Position Statement

Author and Subject Index 2008

Author Guidelines

Calendar

Index

Policy Updates

September 2009:

• Use of Failure mode and effects analysis for proactive identification of communication (test in this section)

• A system's approach to improve organ donation…..

• Evolution of quality at the Organ Center of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing

• Attaining specific donor management goals increases number of organs transplanted per donor: a quality improvement project

• Lung donation after cardiac death of recent heart transplant recipient…

• Engaging the third estate: the Transplant Growth and management Collaborative…

• Correlates of support for living donation among African American adults…

• Defining high risk in adult kidney transplantation…

• Donor factors that affect the number of organs transplanted per donor…

• Effects of administration of intravenous naloxone on gas exchange in brain-dead lung donors…

• Development and validation of a tool for assessing understanding of brain death…

• Tacrolimus: review of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenetics to facilitate practitioners' understanding and offer strategies for educating patients and promoting adherence…

• Editorial - Courage and character, leaders and legends: an interview with Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, DSc

• Guest Editorial - Quality initiatives in transplantation
• Film Review - Iranian Kidney Bargain Sale
• Interview - Interview with J. Michael henderson, MD, Chief Quality Officer, The Cleveland Clinic Health System
• Calendar of Events

June 2009:

• The kidney transplant failure experience: a longitudinal case study
• Certified Clinical Transplant Social Worker Credential

• Constantly responsible, constantly worried, constantly blessed: parenting after pediatric heart transplant

• Psychiatric disorders: are they an absolute contraindication to living donation

• Use of clinical practice guidelines to promote best practice when managing clinical interventions for liver transplant candidates (test in this section)

• Quality of life in caregivers providing care for lung transplant candidates

• Effect of annual influenza immunization on antibody response in lunch transplant patients

• Developing new ways to address learning needs of adult abdominal organ transplant recipients

• Medication adherence in successful kidney transplant recipients

• Relationship of exposure to organ donation information to attitudes, beliefs, and donation decisions of next of kin

• Improving donation outcomes: hospital development and the Rapid Assessment of Hospital Procurement Barriers in Donation

• Exploring transplant opportunities in Hmong culture: a case report

March 2009:

• Patient adherence or patient self-management in transplantation:an ethical analysis
• Importance of depression and active coping in liver tranpslant candidates' quality of life
• An introduction to the electrocardiogram during adult donor care (test in this section)
• Strategies to advanced living kidney donation:A single center's experience
• The living donor advocate:a team approach to educate, evaluate and manage doners across the continuum
• Adapting patient education for potential liver transplant recipients in a climate of chronic donor organ shortfall
• Living - related donors quest for information before donation
• How do communities want their information? Designing educational outreach on organ donation for Asian Americans
• Communicating effectively about donation: an educational intervention to increase consent to donation
• Health literacy skills of kidney transplant recepients
• Managing the Failing Heart:Total Circulatory Assist
• Transplant and Organ Donation Education: What Really Matters
• Stage-Specific educational interventions for patients with end-stage renal disease:phsychological & physciatric considerations

December 2008:

• A multidisciplinary program to educate and advocate for living donors
• Design and implementation of an informed consent process before liver transplantation
• Communication as a predictor of willingness to donate one's organs:

• Effects of information, education, and communication training  about organ donation for gatekeepers:
• Adapting teaching styles to accommodate learning preferences for effective hospital development
• Designing an educational strategy for increasing organ donor registration among the older adults
• Skin cancer education in transplant recipients (test in this section)
• Living kidney donation among Hispanics: a qualitative examination of barriers and opportunities
• Improving preemptive transplant education to increase living donation rates:
• Short-term impact of an education program promoting live donor kidney transplantation in dialysis centers

September 2008:

• Comparative analysis of clinical efficacy and cost between University of Wisconsin solution and histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate (test in this section)
• A model for structuring the donor discussion in emergent transplant procedures
• Modified technique for recovering aortoiliac homografts
• An analysis of critical care staff's attitudes to donation in a country with presumed-consent legislation
• Does family disagreement affect donation decision by next of kin?

• Roller coaster marathon: being a live liver donor
• The relationship between the sick role and functional ability: one center's experience
• Seatbelt injury resulting in functional loss of a transplanted kidney
• Patients seeking alternative to the long waiting list: a reality faced by transplant physicians
• Nursing and transplant coordination: a call for clarity

Editorial

Letters to the Editor

NATCO Position Statement

Author and Subject Index 2008

Author Guidelines

Calendar

Index

Back Issues:

• December 2007 - Risk factors for post transplant diabetes mellitus: a review of the literature
• August 2007 - In my shoes: children's quality of life after heart transplantation
• June 2007 - Incoorporating quality of life and patient satisfaction

• March 2007 - Approaching end-of life care in organ transplantation; the impact of transplant patients' death and dying
• December 2006 - Transition of patients with cystic fibrosis to adult care: today's challenges
• December 2006 - Advanced practice organ procurement techniques: insertion of arterial catheters
• September 2006 - Culturally responsive interventions to enhance immunosuppressive medication adherence in older African American kidney transplant recipients
• June 2006 - Evidence on spouse responses to illness as a guide to understanding and studying spouse responses to living organ donation
• March 2006 - Cardiac dysrhythmias during donor care
• December 2005 - Informed Consent
• September 2005 - Variables during care of adult donors that can influence outcomes of kidney transplantation