The Difficulties and Needs of Organ Transplant Recipients during Postoperative Care at Home: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: With recent advances in surgery and immunosuppressive drugs, organ transplantation has become a major treatment for irreversible organ failure. However, organ transplant recipients returning home after operation may face ongoing physiological, psychological, and social difficulties. To increase recipients' quality of life, postoperative care at home is critical. Thus, the aim of this systematic literature review was to explore recipients' difficulties and needs during postoperative care at home. Our search conformed to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and returned 23 relevant articles published from 1997-2020 in PubMed, MEDLINE, EBSCO, Cochrane, ProQuest, and CEPS, which were assessed using the Modified Jadad Scale or the 32 Consolidate

SUBMITTER: Yang FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7459921 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature