The importance of the doctor-patient relationship in transplantology for improving adherence: a proposal for integrating medical curricula

Abstract

Adherence in transplant patients is a very important issue for successful transplantation. Today, many transplanted patients experience non-adherence, ranging from non-adherence to indications regarding lifestyle and substance use, to non-adherence to immunosuppressive drugs. The doctor-patient relationship also plays a key role with regard to adherence in transplantology, but so far little consideration is given to training in this area in medical and surgical degree courses. The aim of this work is to provide data on adherence in transplant patients and to capture the most critical issues concerning the doctor-patient relationship in transplantology, with the aim of proposing an implementation of the curricula in the field of relationship training in transplantology as well.