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Heart transplantation candidates: psychological evaluation
Hospital Physician
|September 7, 1987
Abstract:
Most medical centers that perform heart transplantation have established medical review boards that consider medical, psychosocial, and financial factors in choosing appropriate candidates. The psychological evaluation described here can furnish clinically useful baseline data regarding the patient's emotional and cognitive functioning, and identify other individual and family variables that may affect patient compliance and the outcome of transplantation.