Supportive care in transplantation: A patient-centered care model to better support kidney transplant candidates and recipients

Figure 1 The complex journey of kidney transplant candidates and recipients highlighting several stages of uncertainty and prospects of death and other adverse outcomes. CKD: Chronic kidney disease; ESRD: End-stage renal disease; LKD: Living kidney donor; PNF: Primary non-function.

Figure 2 Expressed and largely unmet healthcare needs of kidney transplant recipients as identified by ongoing initiatives of the transplant community to advance patient-centered care in kidney transplantation.

Figure 3 Key tenets of a supportive care in transplantation model.

Figure 4 Components and strategies needed at different levels of a health system and the benefit of inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches.