Lecture 8

• How to support symptom management in the outpatient clinic

  Anna Forsberg and Marita Dalvindt, Lund University, Sweden

• Introduction

  This lecture by Marita Dalvindt illustrates and discusses how to communicate with solid organ recipients about symptoms after transplantation. Patients are capable persons and need to be addressed that way. The purpose of this lecture is to provide the knowledge that symptoms are common and need to be dealt with in a person-centred and supportive way.  
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• Self-assessment quiz

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• Suggested resources

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