Learning Objectives:
- Overview of geriatric assessment and kidney transplant
- Review preliminary data from UChicago comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) during kidney transplant evaluation
- Outline frailty in veteran and dialysis population
- Understand the impact of frailty on mortality, morbidity and access to care in dialysis population
- Recognize the need for frailty assessment and intervention in frail dialysis population
- Describe study outline and methods for improving frailty in veteran hemodialysis population
Session date:
11/11/2021 - 8:00am to 9:00am CST
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- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Participation
Speaker Name:
Anu Wadhwa, MD, Manpreet Samra, MD; Jay Patel, Arie Edobor, Maria Lucia Madariaga, MD, Michelle Martinchekl, MD,MPH