Fire on the Unit

Nelson, Julia A.

doi:10.3928/0279-3695-19851101-03

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“…To achieve the best outcome for pediatric liver transplant recipients, we need to understand clinical outcomes, functional health or health‐related quality of life as perceived by the patient and their family, costs of care, and family perception of the care delivered (10‐15). We need to ensure that our care addresses the components of quality outlined by the Institute of Medicine.…”

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Outcomes After Liver Transplantation

Bucuvalas¹,

Campbell²,

Cole³

et al. 2006

J. pediatr. gastroenterol. nutr.

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Since the advent of transplantation as a life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage liver disease, more than 15,000 children and adolescents have received liver transplants. With the improvements in long-term posttransplant survival offered by advances in medical and surgical therapy, the concept of transplantation outcome has expanded beyond simple patient and graft survival rates. The quality of the life years restored, the long-term complications of transplant immunosuppression, and the overall cost of care have been increasingly recognized as important components of liver transplantation outcome. This review focuses on the efforts of a single pediatric transplant center to examine the incidence of, and risk factors for, common posttransplantation complications, to characterize posttransplantation health-related quality of life, to describe the cost of posttransplant care, and to implement novel programs to improve health care delivery. Together, these projects set the future course for research and care improvement initiatives in this population and encourage us to "keep the end in mind" when considering pediatric liver transplantation.

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confidence: 99%