Psychosocial Risk Stratification in Upper Extremity Transplantation Candidates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Candidate selection for upper extremity transplantation remains an inherently subjective process. This work evaluated the effect that psychosocial factors have on outcomes, both to standardize evaluation of potential candidates and in optimizing these factors prior to transplantation. Our goal was to measure and quantify the risk that various psychosocial factors have on transplant outcomes.

Methods

Given that we do not have sufficient post-transplant patients to examine specific factors, we chose to have experts in the field evaluate hypothetical patients based on their experience. We used a Generalized Estimating Equation to estimate and compare surgical candidacy scores using patient scenario vignettes based on the presence or absence of permutations of the fol

SUBMITTER: Kinsley SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11653295 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature