A critique of the article "Psychosocial evaluation and prediction of compliance problems and morbidity after heart transplantation", written by Shapiro et al.
Date Submitted: 11/22/2000 14:01:06
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 6 pages (1728 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 6 pages (1728 words)
In the journal article "Psychosocial evaluation and prediction of compliance problems and morbidity after heart transplantation", the authors attempt to answer the question of whether preoperative psychosocial evaluations have reliable predictive value for heart transplant outcomes (Shapiro et al., 1995). Organ transplant programs use differing selection criteria and screening procedures to establish which patients are within established risk factor limits to safely receive and benefit from heart transplantation surgery. Such screening is necessary due to fact …
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…Gelman, N. Wukich and R. Sciacca, Psychosocial evaluation, and prediction of compliance problems, and morbidity after heart transplantation. Transplantation 60 (1995), pp. 1462-1466.
Shemesh E, Shneider BL, Stuber ML, et al., A pilot study of symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder and nonadherence in pediatric liver transplant recipients. Pediatrics 2000;105:e29 1-7.
Shemesh et al., A prospective study of posttraumatic stress symptoms and nonadherence in survivors of a myocardial infarction (MI). General Hospital Psychiatry Vol. 23 (July-Auguest 2001), pp. 215-222.
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