Innovation | Implementation | Resource |
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Tailors education to individual patient needs | □ Tailored based on individual patients’ transplant knowledge and decision-making | TTM-based computer–tailored intervention that was designed to track a patient’s attitudinal shifts over time |
â–¡ Provides information and recommends steps to pursue transplant in small doses at multiple time points | ||
□ Tracks patients’ knowledge and attitudinal shifts over time, allowing coaches to acknowledge growth and change | ||
Provides education in multiple media/formats | â–¡ Provides education in multiple formats to account for multiple learning styles, including video stories, provider-led coaching sessions, and individually-tailored reports | Cultural competency-trained coaches providing individualized coaching to the patient and disseminating educational pamphlets, factsheets and a DVD that highlights the experiences of kidney donors and recipients |
â–¡ Includes an in-person educational session with each patient to develop greater relationship between the patients and the coaches | ||
â–¡ Provides a culturally competent and socioeconomically sensitive coach to help guide patients through the education and transplant process for deceased and living donor transplant separately | ||
Engages external resources to help patients pursue transplant | □ Includes educational resources to engage patients’ support networks and potential living donors to learn about transplant along with the patient | A guide for family and friends is available for those family members and close friends of patients who want to learn about kidney transplant |
â–¡ Provides resources to help patients overcome socioeconomic barriers limiting their access to transplant | ||
Patients are given a 43 page community resource guide that contains information ranging from dental services to low cost transportation in the LA County area |