InformMe is a decision aid to help patients make informed treatment decisions about whether to accept or to refuse a kidney from an increased risk donor, that:
Includes 4 chapters with brief text, videos, and graphics
Survey questions after each chapter
Focuses on kidneys, but also applies to other organs
Increased risk donors are deceased donors who engaged in behaviors that increase their chances of having Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C.
Organs that come from increased risk donors have a greater chance of passing HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C to organ transplant recipients than organs from donors who did not engage in high risk behaviors.
Your decision about whether or not to accept an increased risk donor organ can affect your health and quality of life.
InformMe was developed and tested by researchers at Northwestern University and University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Northwestern University and the Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, have partnered to deliver InformMe to patients across the country.
Contact Us
Elisa Gordon, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Department of Surgery
Center for Healthcare Studies
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
633 N. St. Clair, 20th FL
Chicago, IL 60611-5099
Tel: (312) 503-5563
Fax: (312) 503-4401
Email: e-gordon@northwestern.edu
Transplant Center
Are you a transplant center interested in using
InformMe?
Link
to this page to share this program with your patients.
Please contact Elisa Gordon at
e-gordon@northwestern.edu
and we will get back in touch with you shortly.
Supported Devices
Below are a list of devices we support for use of this application.