Inpatient Kidney Palliative Care for Kidney Transplant Recipients With Failing Allografts

Naoka Murakami¹, Samantha L Gelfand^{1

2}, Kate R Sciacca^{3

2}, Kelsey Killeen³, Richard E Leiter^{3

2}, Joel T Adler⁴, Anil K Chandraker¹, Joshua R Lakin^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
² Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
³ Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
⁴ Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Naoka Murakami et al. Kidney Med. 2021.

. 2021 Dec 9;4(2):100398.

doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2021.10.011. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Naoka Murakami¹, Samantha L Gelfand^{1

2}, Kate R Sciacca^{3

2}, Kelsey Killeen³, Richard E Leiter^{3

2}, Joel T Adler⁴, Anil K Chandraker¹, Joshua R Lakin^{3

2}

¹ Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
² Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
³ Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
⁴ Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

No abstract available

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