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Towards Standardizing the Alcoholism Evaluation Of Potential Liver Transplant Recipients
- Source :
- Alcohol and Alcoholism. 53:135-144
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017.
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Abstract
- Aims For teams around the world, alcoholic liver disease patients comprise the largest, and clinically most controversial, group applying for liver transplant. And yet evaluation decisions for them remain highly variable by locale. Methods Targeting standardized assessment, we provide guidelines on what information the transplant team should seek, from what sources, and how best to make use of it. This report focuses on 'what to do and how to do it' in providing appropriate assessments for this complex patient group. Results Proper evaluation includes (a) taking the clinical history from the patient and a required, corroborating third person, (b) assessing patient cognition, (c) establishing alcohol/substance use diagnosis to differentiate alcohol dependence, abuse and polysubstance dependence, (d) assessing ambivalence in primary alcohol addiction, (e) measuring social stability and (f) using Vaillant's factors for abstinence prognosis. Conclusions Properly applied, these six factors will allow standardized selection in most cases taken across programs despite differences in resources, available expertise and decision practices. Short summary This report focuses on the essentials of the psychiatric/behavioral evaluation for 'alcoholic' persons referred for liver transplant. Attention to those essentials offers clinical standardization across transplant programs in different locales.
- Subjects :
- Alcoholic liver disease
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Medical History Taking
Liver Diseases, Alcoholic
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Patient Selection
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Abstinence
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Liver Transplantation
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Alcoholism
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030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14643502 and 07350414
- Volume :
- 53
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Alcohol and Alcoholism
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1ef328494cbcb3ce10ae77145d7c5981