RATING-SCALES FOR THE PSYCHOSOCIAL EVALUATION OF ORGAN TRANSPLANT CANDIDATES - COMPARISON OF THE PACT AND TERS WITH BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANT PATIENTS

Two scaled formats for summarizing the results of psychosocial evaluat ions of transplant candidates have been published, the Psychosocial As sessment of Candidates for Transplantation (PACT) and the Transplant E valuation Rating Scale (TERS). In this study, 40 consecutive candidate s for bone marrow transplant were rated on the PACT and TERS. The PACT and TERS were comparable in interrater reliability. Similar conceptua l items for each scale correlated fairly highly with one another. The PACT and TERS differ in several scale characteristics. The authors dis cuss the relationship between scale characteristics and clinical utili ty.